The Winter Country House Sale

For Auction: 29th November 2011

A Regency brass inlaid rosewood break front side cabinet, attributed to Gillows,
the frieze with raised panels to each section over two pairs of contra and premiere partie doors in boulle work, between moulded and scrolled pilasters and gadrooned mouldings on paw feet,
260cm wide
49cm deep
89cm high

See Christie's sale 6 April 2000, lot 109, for an almost identical, but smaller cabinet of this form (195.5cm wide, 47cm deep, 91.5cm high).

Their notes: ' …related arabesque boulle panels feature on the bookcase and furnishings supplied around 1820 for the Music Room at Tatton Hall, Cheshire, by Gillows'.

The Egertons of Tatton Hall commissioned over 200 pieces of furniture from Gillows.

The same frieze panels appear on:

A chair from a suite at Tatton Park (Susan E. Stuart 'Gillows of Lancaster and London', plate 203).

A library table (sold by Tennants) (Susan E. Stuart 'Gillows of Lancaster and London'-plate 309).

The Regency Library Desk and Folio Cabinet, sold Sothebys, Hackwood Park. April 1998, lots 21 and 22
(Lord Bolton commissioned furniture from Gillows in 1813)

A library table sold Bonhams, 'Bracewell Collection of Gillows furniture', 16 July 2008, lot 128. (Provenance: commissioned for Sir John Hayford Thorold, Syston Park)

For an interesting insight into the supply of brass inlay, see page 290 of the same book.

Hammer : £84000.00