Furniture, Works of Art, Carpets & Clocks - 16th January 2025

Lot 829

λ A NEAR PAIR OF GEORGE IV ROSEWOOD TRIPOD WINE TABLES

Estimate £4,000 - £6,000 | Hammer £6048

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Description

λ A NEAR PAIR OF GEORGE IV ROSEWOOD TRIPOD WINE TABLES

ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, C.1825-30

each with an octagonal galleried top above a fluted lappet and triple column stem, on leaf carved cabriole legs (2)

72.7cm high, 38.2cm wide

Catalogue Note

For a pair of Victorian goncalo alves occasional tables with similar cluster columns, see Woolley and Wallis, Collections and Fine Furniture, The Selected Contents of Dinton Hall, Buckinghamshire, lot 71.

See Gillows Estimate Sketch Books, p.3170 drawn on 16 July 1822, held at the Westminster City Archives for a sketch of a similar table with a ‘double round cornered top’.

Also Susan E. Stuart, 'Gillows of Lancaster and London, 1730-1840', vol. II, p.97, pl. 644 for a similar pair of 'flower tables' in rosewood also with ‘double round cornered tops’.