Live Auction 7663Fasque The Scottish Seat of the Gladstones
A SET OF LATE REGENCY MAHOGANY AND CANED THREE-TIER BED STEPS
Lot 200

A SET OF LATE REGENCY MAHOGANY AND CANED THREE-TIER BED STEPS

CIRCA 1820, ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS

Closed7 May 2008

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GBP 1,125

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A SET OF LATE REGENCY MAHOGANY AND CANED THREE-TIER BED STEPS
CIRCA 1820, ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS
Enclosing a ceramic bowl with a later pine cover
30½ in. (77.5 cm.) high; 19¾ in. (50.3 cm.) wide; 30½ in. (77.5 cm.) deep

Probably acquired by Sir John Gladstone for Seaforth House, Liverpool.

Specialist note

The bedsteps, with vase-baluster rail, conceals a chamber pot in its carpeted steps. The fashion for such furniture introduced around 1800 was popularised by P. and M.A. Nicholson'’s, Practical Cabinet-maker, Upholsterer and Complete Decorator, 1826. Gillows supplied several related 'Pair of Bedside Steps £10.18.0' to the 5th Duke and Duchess of Rutland at Belvoir Castle between 1821-24.