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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY, SATINWOOD, SATINBIRCH AND EBONY SECRETAIRE CABINET
Lot 128 PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION (LOTS 113-140)

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY, SATINWOOD, SATINBIRCH AND EBONY SECRETAIRE CABINET

BY GILLOWS, CIRCA 1790

Closed17 May 2017

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GBP 6,250

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY, SATINWOOD, SATINBIRCH AND EBONY SECRETAIRE CABINET
BY GILLOWS, CIRCA 1790
The superstructure with a pair of oval-panelled doors and open shelves above a secretaire drawer fitted with pigeon holes and drawers and a later green leather-lined writing surface, above a pair of oval panelled doors enclosing shelves, flanked by engaged columns with ebony simulated fluting, on toupie feet, the drawer stamped 'GILLOWS LANCASTER'
60 ½ in. (154 cm.) high; 34 ½ in. (88 cm.) wide; 18 ½ in. (47 cm.) deep

Anonymous sale, Bonhams, Edinburgh

Specialist note

The secretaire corresponds to a design dated 1798 in Gillows' Estimate Sketch Book, illustrated in L. Boynton Gillows Furniture Designs 1760 - 1800, 1995, p.171, pl. 155. A secretaire of this pattern stamped by Gillows is illustrated in R. Edwards, Dictionary of English Furniture, 1954, vol. I, p.157, fig.79, and again in R. Edwards and M. Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet Makers, 1955, p.218, fig 189. Another, from Lindsay Boynton's collection is illustrated in Susan Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, Woodbridge, 2008, vol. II, p. 24, pl. 556.