Live Auction 14223The English Collector: English Furniture, Clocks, European Ceramics & Portrait Miniatures
A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY PEDESTAL BOOKCASE
Lot 6 PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED EUROPEAN ESTATE (Lots 1-20)

A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY PEDESTAL BOOKCASE

CIRCA 1820-30, IN THE MANNER OF GILLOWS

Closed17 May 2017

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GBP 9,375

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A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY PEDESTAL BOOKCASE
CIRCA 1820-30, IN THE MANNER OF GILLOWS
The tooled leather-lined hinged top above four open shelves, each corner flanked by a pair of Corinthian pilasters on a plinth base with inset anti-friction castors, the leather top apparently original, some replacements to the leather book spines
32 ¼ in. (82.5 cm.) high; 21 in. (53.5 cm.) wide; 16 in. (41 cm.) deep

Specialist note

A related design for a bookstand with hinged top is illustrated in Gillows Estimate Sketch Book, 1831, for Ferguson & Co., their London partners, and reproduced in Susan Stuart, Gillows of London and Lancaster 1730 - 1840, Woodbridge, 2008, vol. I, p. 382, pl. 456.
Similar examples were sold anonymously Sotheby's, London, 4 June 2008, lot 58 (£12,500 including premium) and 6 December 2011, lot 144 (£27,500 including premium), and Christie's, London, 23 May 2013, lot 199 (£12,500 including premium).