Live Auction 9668Christie's Interiors - Style & Spirit
A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY WRITING OR DRESSING TABLE
Lot 476

A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY WRITING OR DRESSING TABLE

BY GILLOWS, DATED 1824

Closed19 November 2013

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A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY WRITING OR DRESSING TABLE
BY GILLOWS, DATED 1824
The five mahogany-lined drawers with rosewood handles, the top right drawer signed in pencil underneath Jn Miller/ Lancaster June 4/ 1824
33 in. (84 cm.) high; 47¾ in. (121.5 cm.) wide; 26 in. (66 cm.) deep

By repute, Burrow Hall, Lancashire.

Specialist note

John Miller is listed in S. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, London, 2008, vol. II, p. 264, as apprenticed to Gillows in 1815 and still on the payroll in 1835.

An almost identical dressing table made by the craftsman James Whiteside is shown in Gillows' Estimate Sketch Books, folio no. 3312, dated December 30, 1823.