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357 A PAIR OF GEORGE III PAINTED SATINWOOD HALF CIRCULAR FOLDING TOP CARD TABLE ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS OF LANCASTER,the tops decorated with painted continuous bands of garden flow-
ers and foliage within rosewood banding and boxwood stringing,
the friezes similarly inlaid with a central plain tablet and raised on
square tapering banded legs 91cm wide, 45cm deep, 74cm high
Provenance: Ex Barrett Collection, Crowe Hall, Bath Christie’s 2010 lot
78
Gillows produced these types of satinwood and inlaid tables with
or without floral festoons in the 1780s - 1790s.
See Susan Stuart,
Gillows of Lancaster and London
Volume I 2008,
pages 260-261.
A related pair sold Christies, 14 July 2001, Lot 110 £58,000.
Supplied to Lionel Tollemache, Earl of Dysart.
€ 20,000 - 30,000




