Live Auction 10648Christie's Interiors - Style & Spirit
A REGENCY MAHOGANY WRITING OR DRESSING TABLE
Lot 244

A REGENCY MAHOGANY WRITING OR DRESSING TABLE

ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1806

Closed2 June 2015

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY WRITING OR DRESSING TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1806
With five oak-lined drawers with finely cast brass lion mask handles, the front legs headed by flame mahogany panels
34 in. (86 cm.) high; 40 in. (102 cm.) wide; 22 in. (56 cm.) deep

Specialist note

Two near-identical mahogany dressing tables were supplied by Gillows Lancaster to General Jones in March and June 1806 (see the Estimate Sketch Books, folios 1781 and 1792). They were fitted respectively with “6 brass nobs” and “6 commode nobs”, the latter also in brass.