A PAIR OF VICTORIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED WALNUT, BURR-ELM AND PARCEL-GILT OCTAGONAL TRIPOD TABLES
Lot 250

A PAIR OF VICTORIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED WALNUT, BURR-ELM AND PARCEL-GILT OCTAGONAL TRIPOD TABLES

ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1860

Closed2 May 2013

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GBP 11,875

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A PAIR OF VICTORIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED WALNUT, BURR-ELM AND PARCEL-GILT OCTAGONAL TRIPOD TABLES
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1860
Each top inlaid with a Vitruvian-scroll border, on a turned fluted baluster shaft with chandelles and foliage swags, on cabriole legs and Greek key pattern feet
26½ in. (67 cm.) high; 23 in. (58.5 cm.) diameter (2)

Anonymous sale; Christie's London, 2 May 2002, lot 234.

Specialist note

These tables are typical of the high quality furniture produced in the third-quarter of the 19th Century by the London and Lancaster firm of Gillows. Gillows' stamp appears on a related octagonal table with fluted column supports, sold by the Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Charitable Trust, Christie's South Kensington, 31 March 1993, lot 550 and on a related centre table sold anonymously, Phillips London, 22 May 2001, lot 127.