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Lot Essay
The sideboard corresponds to designs in the Gillows' Estimate Sketch Books, illustrated in L. Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Leeds, 1995, figs. 93, 94 and 99. All of these designs are dated late 1780s but it was customary for Gillows to continue making popular pieces over many years. The present sideboard is similar to one ordered by Messrs. Calvert & Harrison in 1791 (see ESB, 344/95, p. 788, illustrated in S. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, Woodbridge, 2008, vol. I, p. 318, plate 360), while another bearing the impressed stamp 'GILLOWS, LANCASTER' is included as plate 361 in Stuart, op. cit.
A related sideboard, serpentine in shape with applied bellflower swags to the stiles and with an oval sunflower patera in place of the acanthus spray on the present lot, is illustrated in P. Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. ed., London, 1954, p. 134, fig. 27, and another almost identical to the latter was sold from the collection of the late Simon Sainsbury, Christie's, London, 18 June 2008, lot 94 (£49,250 inc’ prem’).
A related sideboard, serpentine in shape with applied bellflower swags to the stiles and with an oval sunflower patera in place of the acanthus spray on the present lot, is illustrated in P. Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. ed., London, 1954, p. 134, fig. 27, and another almost identical to the latter was sold from the collection of the late Simon Sainsbury, Christie's, London, 18 June 2008, lot 94 (£49,250 inc’ prem’).