Live Auction 14224The Collector: English Furniture, Clocks & Works of Art
AN EARLY VICTORIAN ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE
Lot 166

AN EARLY VICTORIAN ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE

ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, MID-19TH CENTURY

Closed15 November 2017

Price Realised

GBP 3,250

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, MID-19TH CENTURY
The rectangular top with waved border above one frieze and one false drawer, mirrored to the reverse, supported by two turned supports joined by turned stretcher, terminating in twin acanthus-scrolled cabriole legs, the locks stamped AUSTER & SMITH PATENT
30 in. (76 cm.) high; 60 in. (152 cm.) wide; (71 cm.) deep

Specialist note

The form of this sofa table seems to relate most closely to a June 1825 design for a rosewood writing table by Gillows for the Revd. Fane. (see Susan E. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730 - 1840, Woodbridge, 2008, vol. I, p.268, pl.274.).