ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY 'IMPERIAL' EXTENDING DINING-TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The rounded rectangular top with a reeded edge, with four additional leaves, on tapering turned, reeded legs with brass caps and castors, with handwritten labels ' MR G B BOYD 85 BARDEN LANE CHEAM SURREY'
28¾ in. (73 cm.) high; 60 in. (153 cm.) wide; 130½ in. (332 cm.) extended; three leaves each 23¾ in. (60 cm.) long, one leaf 12½ in. (32 cm.) long

Provenance

Mr G. B. Boyd

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Lot Essay

In 1804 Gillows illustrated and patented their 'Imperial' dining-table in which a variable number of loose leaves were fitted between fixed end leaves, a design which, within a few years, largely superceded most earlier ones. Initially such tables had an arrangement of as many as ten or twelve legs to support the central leaves when extended, but as the design was improved and the mechanism became more sturdy the centre legs were gradually removed. The form remained popular and another drawing of an improved version of the table by Ferguson & Co, one of the successors to the Gillow family business, is dated as late as 1849 (see Susan E. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, Woodbridge, 2008, vol.I, pp.243-246.

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