Live Auction 2645A Taste for Luxury: Two Great Houses from America's Gilded Age
A REGENCY MAHOGANY ADJUSTABLE READING TABLE
Lot 1095

A REGENCY MAHOGANY ADJUSTABLE READING TABLE

ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1815

Closed21 June 2012

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY ADJUSTABLE READING TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1815
The rising ratcheted rectangular top with reeded edge and later bookrest on paneled standard supports joined by turned stretchers on hipped reeded downswept legs with brass caps and casters
28½ in. (72.5 cm.) high, 27 in. (68.5 cm.) wide, 17¾ in. (45 cm.) deep

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 15 April 2005, lot 114.

Specialist note

This writing-table relates to a pattern illustrated in Gillows's General Sketch Book, 1810, p. 51. A similar brass-inlaid rosewood reading-table was supplied by Gillows to William Powlett, 2nd Baron Bolton (1782-1850) for Hackwood, and sold by the Estate of the 2nd Viscount Camrose, Hackwood Park, Hampshire, Christie's, 20-22 April 1998, lot 20.