Live Auction 7586West ~ East - The Niall Hobhouse Collection
A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY CANTERBURY
Lot 214

A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY CANTERBURY

CIRCA 1825, ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS

Closed22 May 2008

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GBP 6,000

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A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY CANTERBURY
CIRCA 1825, ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS
Of large size, with a drawer, on recessed brass castors
23 in. (58.5 cm.) high; 31¾ in. (81 cm.) wide; 18½ in. (47 cm.) deep

The M. Golder Will Trust, Lyegrove, near Badminton, Gloucestershire, sold Christie's South Kensington collection sale, 4 June 1997, lot 657.

Specialist note

The music canterbury is designed in the George IV 'Grecian' manner, with Apollonian lyre-scrolled pillars supporting Ionic-scrolled rails; while pearl-reeded mouldings wreath the plinth, whose feet comprise Grecian reeded urns. The London and Lancaster firm of Gillow, who introduced such 'urn' feet at the start of the 19th century, featured a simpler but related reed-enriched canterbury, in their 1826 Estimate Sketch Book.