A SET OF REGENCY SPECIMEN-WOOD QUARTETTO TABLES
Lot 255

A SET OF REGENCY SPECIMEN-WOOD QUARTETTO TABLES

BY GILLOWS, CIRCA 1810-15

Closed23 May 2012

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GBP 12,500

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A SET OF REGENCY SPECIMEN-WOOD QUARTETTO TABLES
BY GILLOWS, CIRCA 1810-15
Each with a rectangular top with central panel and crossbanding in amboyna, rosewood, satinwood, maple and karelian birch, the smallest table inlaid with a chess board, on rosewood turned baluster legs joined by conforming stretchers, replacements to stretchers
29¼ in. (74.5 cm.) high; 23 in. (58.5 cm.) wide; 16 in. (40.5 cm.) deep (4)

Specialist note

A set of quartetto tables of similar form which are recorded at Leighton Hall, Lancashire and were likely to have been supplied by Gillows circa 1810 (R. Edwards & M. Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet Makers, London, 1955, p. 221, fig. 193). A similar set was sold anonymously Christie's, London, 4 June 2009, lot 136 (£21,250 including premium), while another related set of five was sold from the property of Michael Lipitch II, Christie's, London, 4 October 2001, lot 116 (£30,550 including premium).