Live Auction 5251Christie's Interiors - Style & Spirit
A REGENCY MAHOGANY AND ROSEWOOD BANDED SOFA TABLE
Lot 91 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 

A REGENCY MAHOGANY AND ROSEWOOD BANDED SOFA TABLE

ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Closed1 April 2014

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY AND ROSEWOOD BANDED SOFA TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The reeded and crossbanded top above two drawers opposed by conforming dummy drawers, on spindle-filled end-supports with brass paw caps and castors, the underside with depository label inscribed 'Nott', the back stretcher replaced, the handles later
28¼ in. (71.5 cm.) high; 63 in. (160 cm.) wide; 27 in. (68.5 cm.) deep

Nott.
Christie's, King Street, 29 November 2001, lot 183.

Specialist note

The elegant sofa table can be attributed to Gillows of London and Lancaster who made particular use of downswept end-supports with scrolled 'claws'. A calamander-banded writing table by Gillows with almost identical ends filled with spindles above a lozenge panel is illustrated in G. Wills, Craftsmen and Cabinet-Makers of Classic English Furniture, Edinburgh, 1974, pp. 117-118, figs. 108-109. It closely relates to a sketch dated 1818 in folio 2087 of the firm's Estimate Sketch Books.