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THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE DR. ERIC TILL, SOLD BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTORS (LOTS 20-26)

A REGENCY CALAMANDER SOFA TABLE

ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS

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A REGENCY CALAMANDER SOFA TABLE
Attributed to Gillows
The rounded rectangular twin-flap top crossbanded in satinwood, above a part blue paper-lined and part cedar-lined frieze drawer and a simulated drawer to each side, on square tapering splayed legs joined by a high rectangular stretcher, brass caps and castors, with paper label inscribed in ink 'Drawing Room', one drawer inscribed in pencil 'no.6', the other 'No.8' one foot with restored break, the handles later
28½ in. (72.5 cm.) high; 61½ in. (156 cm.) wide, open; 26¼ in. (66.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Bought from Bernard Edinborough Antiques, Stamford for £65.5.0 in June 1944.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The elegant sofa table is veneered in golden Indian calamander or 'coromandel wood' whose richly-figured black striations earned it the name of 'marblewood'. The table can be attributed to Gillows of London and Lancaster who made particular use of the downswept end-supports with scrolled 'claws' on many of their tables. A related calamander-banded writing-table by Gillows, has similar ends filled with spindles and relates to a sketch dated 1818 in their Estimate Sketch Books, number 2079 (G. Wills, Craftsmen and Cabinet-Makers of Classic English Furniture, Edinburgh, 1974, pp. 117-118, figs. 108-109). A closely related calamander sofa table attributed to Gillows, from Castle Hyde, Fermoy, Co. Cork, was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 8 July 1993, lot 99.

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