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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