Live Auction 10637Christie's Interiors - Style & Spirit
A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY CHAMBER WRITING-TABLE
Lot 42

A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY CHAMBER WRITING-TABLE

ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1825

Closed17 February 2015

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GBP 3,250

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A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY CHAMBER WRITING-TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1825
The rounded rectangular top with a hinged flap revealing a pen-and-ink compartment, above a reeded edge and a panelled frieze, the drawer with rosewood handles, on turned tapering legs with brass caps and castors
29 ¼ in. (74.5 cm.) high; 27 ¾ in. (70.5 cm.) wide; 19 ¾ in. (50.cm.) deep

Specialist note

A sketch for this type of table appears in Gillows' Estimate Sketch Books, dated 1810, and called by them a 'chamber writing-table' (No. 344/144, p. 11, Westminster City Archives).
Gillows supplied four tables of this pattern in 1811 to T.W. Egerton for Tatton Park, Cheshire (N. Goodison and J. Hardy, 'Gillows at Tatton Park, Cheshire', Furniture History, 1970, pp. 28, 30, 32 and 35, pl. 16B). A chamber table of closely related form was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 14 June 2001, lot 177.