A PAIR OF GEORGE IV MAHOGANY WRITING-TABLES

ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, THE CRAFTSMEN OF ONE, 'DOTCHIN'

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A PAIR OF GEORGE IV MAHOGANY WRITING-TABLES
Attributed to Gillows, the craftsmen of one, 'Dotchin'
Each with a curved rectangular top with bobbin-turned moulding above a plain frieze, on reeded baluster supports and rectangular platforms with scrolled feet and sunk castors, losses to the bobbin-turned moulding, one with pencil inscription to the underside 'Dotchin'
29¾ in. (75.5 cm.) high; 59 in. (150 cm.) wide; 30½ in. (77.5 cm.) deep (2)

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Possibly supplied to the Rev'd Francis North, 6th Earl of Guilford (d. 1861) and by descent with the
Earls of Guilford, Waldershare Park, Dover, Kent or possibly Glemham Hall, Suffolk (which was sold in 1923).

拍品专文

The tables are richly gadrooned in the George IV 'antique' manner, while their pillar plinths are supported by palm and acanthus-wrapped trusses. Closely related 'handsome pillar ends' featured on a writing-table supplied in l822 to William, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (d. 1833) for Wentworth, Yorkshire, and bearing the stamp 'Gillows Lancaster' (sold in the Wentworth sale, in these Rooms, 8 July l998, lot 83). Similar pillars appear in Gillows' l824 Estimate Sketch Book for a table, whose top is likewise enriched with reeded and beaded mouldings (Wesminster City Library MSS no. 3371, dated 24th September). It is interesting to note that Gillows supplied a clothes-press to the Rev'd North, a sketch for which appears in the Gillows Estimate Sketch Books, MSS no. 3308. It is possible that this is the Rev'd Francis North, who in 1827 succeeded his cousin as the 6th Earl of Guilford.
Thomas and James Dotchin are recorded as cabinet-makers working in Newcastle in the 1830s (The Dictionary of English Furniture-Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, p. 251).