Live Auction 5992Christie's Interiors
A WILLIAM IV GONCALO ALVES CENTRE TABLE
Lot 63

A WILLIAM IV GONCALO ALVES CENTRE TABLE

ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1835

Closed12 April 2011

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GBP 3,000

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A WILLIAM IV GONCALO ALVES CENTRE TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1835
The gadrooned and foliate carved octagonal top on a stepped flared column and tripartite base with gadrooned bun feet headed by roundels, on castors
28¾ in. (73 cm.) high; 36 in. (91.5 cm.) wide; 36½ in. (92.5 cm) deep

Specialist note

This table has a number of features characteristic of Gillows' production of the 1830s, including: the use of goncalo alves veneer (known by Gillows as Albuera wood), a heavily gadrooned top, shaped and chamfered bearers underneath the top, a tapering faceted column with a stepped double band of ovolo moulding, a platform base with escutcheon-shaped ends, and part-gadrooned bun feet. For similar centre tables see folio nos. 4094, 5050, 5051 and 5163 in the firm's Estimate Sketch Books.