Live Auction 14223The English Collector: English Furniture, Clocks, European Ceramics & Portrait Miniatures
A PAIR OF REGENCY MAHOGANY BEDSTEPS
Lot 160

A PAIR OF REGENCY MAHOGANY BEDSTEPS

ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1810

Closed17 May 2017

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GBP 13,750

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A PAIR OF REGENCY MAHOGANY BEDSTEPS
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1810
Each with three green leather-lined treads, the upper tread hinged, the middle tread hinged with a drawer, on tapering reeded legs
27 in. (69 cm.) high; 21 in. (53.5 cm.) wide; 26 ½ in. (67 cm.) deep

Specialist note

These bedsteps are almost identical to three pairs supplied to Wilbraham Egerton (1781-1856) to furnish Tatton Park, Cheshire in 1811 by Gillows of Lancaster (illustrated John Hardy, 'Gillows at Tatton Park', The Journal of the Furniture History Society, Leeds, 1970, pl. 11B).