ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1822

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A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY TRAY-TOP WORK-TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1822
The rectangular top with a low waved gallery, two mahogany-lined end drawers and a sliding frame for a work basket, above lyre-shaped end supports joined by a dished tray and with scrolled acanthus legs with similar feet and inset brass castors
29 in. (74 cm.) high; 27 in. (69 cm.) wide; 19 in. (48 cm.) deep

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Stair & Co, where bought by the present owner.

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Gillows' design for a mahogany tray top working table made for Sir T.D.Hesketh was drawn on 23 August 1822, the cost of the table at the time £8.13s.2½d plus 10s. for the finish. The form was evidently popular as related designs spanned a 31 year period from 1820, when the table was described as a 'French work table', until 1851. A very closely related table in rosewood is illustrated in Susan Stuart, Gillows of London and Lancaster 1730-1840, Woodbridge, 2008, vol.I, pl.332, p.303. The latter, like the present lot, has a bag slide but no trace of a bag ever having been fitted, and while in 1822 Sir T.D.Hesketh ordered a pink silk bag, it seems that other customers preferred to make their own bag.
An almost identical table was sold Sotheby's, London, 22 April 2004, lot 99.