Live Auction 8360Christie's Interiors
A LARGE REGENCY MAHOGANY LINEN PRESS
Lot 336

A LARGE REGENCY MAHOGANY LINEN PRESS

ALMOST CERTAINLY BY GILLOWS, CIRCA 1810

Closed5 March 2013

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GBP 1,375

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A LARGE REGENCY MAHOGANY LINEN PRESS
ALMOST CERTAINLY BY GILLOWS, CIRCA 1810
The upper section with looped reeded panels and enclosing four slides, the base with four long drawers with original rosewood handles, on replaced bracket feet, the main drawer with maker's pencil signature underneath John Butler
90½ in. (230 cm.) high; 50¼ in. (128 cm.) wide; 25¼ in. (64 cm.) deep

Specialist note

A linen press with identical base, including old fashioned bracket feet of this type, is shown in a Gillows sketch of 1809 (Estimate Sketch Books folio no. 1863), while the upper section is a standard Gillows design of circa 1810-1815. The craftsman John Butler is not listed in Susan Stuart's monograph on the firm but her list is not comprehensive.