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A PAIR OF GEORGE III BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY DUMB WAITERS
Lot 293 THE PROPERTY OF A DESCENDANT OF SAMUEL COURTAULD IV

A PAIR OF GEORGE III BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY DUMB WAITERS

ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Closed23 May 2012

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY DUMB WAITERS
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Each of two revolving circular tiers with brass greek key galleries and baluster turned supports on a turned reeded pedestal and reeded sabre legs with brass caps and castors
43½ in. (111 cm.) high; 24½ in. (62 cm.) diameter (2)

Specialist note

This form of 'Dumb waiter' was illustated in Gillows Estimate Sketch Book dated 14 February 1803, for Le Gendre Pierce Starkie Esq, the associated text showing the cost as £7.3s.7d. The form was evidently popular since the same model 'with two tops' appears again in 1819. An almost identical pair formerly in the collection of the Hon. Violet Vivian, M.B.E, was sold Christie's, New York, Property from the Collection of Neil and Sharon Phillips, 11 October 2007, lot 45, ($23.750 including premium).