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A George IV brass mounted…
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Sydney
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19-Sep-2023
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A George IV brass mounted calamander library table, the design attributed to Gillows, the rectangular top with re-entrant corners on spindle inset end supports with beaded lozenge motif terminating in swept legs with foliate brass castors. Height 73 cm, width 97 cm, depth 63 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones collection. Other notes: several 'Spindle end' writing tables were featured in the 'Gillows Estimate sketch Book' of 1818, and a table of similar end supports stamped Gillows Lancaster is illustrated in Susan Stuart's 'Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840', Vol. I., Woodbridge: antique Collectors' club, 2008. Pl. 329, p. 301, stating 'a table frame with spindle ends was supplied in the 1820s by Gillows of London to display marble brought back from the Grand Tour by the Tempests of Broughton hall, north Yorkshire.' another table with same ends as this table is featured in 'The Collectors' book of English Antiques' by Geoffrey Wills and Edward T. Joy, south Brunswick and New York: a. S. Barnes and Company, 1964. Pl. 98, p. 73.
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