Object Description
Gillows of Lancaster
An Exceptional Gillows Regency Inlaid Mahogany Sideboard.
The ebony crossbanded, line inlaid rectangular top retains the original brass splash rail
above a bank of drawers (the right hand drawer is a cupboard rather than a drawer) with ring handles and separated by reeded flat columns, the middle drawer stamped “GILLOWS” and with a recessed inlaid drawer below and having a brass moulding all round at the waist; raised on tapering reeded turned legs
Circa 1800
Price: £10,000-00p.
Width: 63”, 160cm, Depth: 25”, 63cm, Height: 36”, 92cm
Including Splash Rail: 51”,130cm
Literature: Christie’s (1997). Hackwood Park [Christie’s, 1998]. Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd. Numerous pieces were supplied by Gillows at the start of the 19th. Century to Baron Bolton with reeded legs and or columns . pp. 198 – 208. See lots 356-370
Lindsay Boynton, “Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800”. Illus: 85,86,87 described as “Cabled Legs – a Gillows term for Reeded Legs, 91 & 92 again with Cabled Legs and a Brass Splash Rail.
Susan Stuart, “Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840”, Vol I,
pp.311-321, Plate 351 & 358 both have a brass splash rail and plates 362,363 and 365 all show reeded legs.