Object Description
A late William IV rosewood breakfront open bookcase, by Gillows, the shaped top with a turned baluster gallery above four doors with pleated silk panels behind diamond trellis grilles, enclosing two adjustable shelves, divided by four turned, tapering gadrooned pilasters with acanthus bud bases, all raised on a shaped plinth. Stamped ‘Gillows. Lancaster’. English, circa 1836.
Footnote: See Susan Stuart, ‘Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840’, Antique Collectors’ Club, Woodbridge, 2008, Vol. I, p. 384, pls. 459-60 for the design for this bookcase in the Westminster Archive Centre drawn in 1836 and a very similar example made between 1835 and 1840.