Object Description
A Regency rosewood end support sofa table, attributed to Gillows, the rectangular top with two hinged flaps veneered in continuous figured veneers, the frieze with two drawers and two dummy drawers, raised on panelled end supports joined by a turned stretcher, with lion’s paw feet. English, circa 1815
Footnote: Susan Stuart illustrates several end support sofa tables in ‘Gillows of Lancaster and London, 1730-1840’, Vol. I, 2008, Woodbridge, pp. 265-267, pls 270-273. Plate 270 shows the drawing for a table for John Gladstone from Liverpool, in the estimate sketch book dated April 1813 with very similar supports described as ‘pedestal ends’
Dimensions:
Height 29 inches Width flaps open 62 inches flaps down 38 ½ inches Depth 28 ¼ inches