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A Late William IV Rosewood Breakfront Open Bookcase, by Gillows (1 of 12)
Wick Antiques Ltd
Flag of United KingdomHampshire, UK
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A Late William IV Rosewood Breakfront Open Bookcase, by Gillows

REF: LA501691
£12,500
€14,602
$15,723
Certified DealerApproved item420 sales by dealer
Certified DealerApproved item420 sales by dealer
Description
A late William IV rosewood breakfront open bookcase by Gillows, the shaped top with a turned baluster gallery above four doors with pleated silk panels behind diamond trellis grilles, enclosing two adjustable shelves, divided by four turned, tapering gadrooned pilasters with acanthus bud bases, all raised on a shaped plinth. Stamped ‘Gillows. Lancaster’. Footnote: See Susan Stuart, ‘Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840’, Antique Collectors’ Club, Woodbridge, 2008, Vol. I, p. 384, pls. 459-60 for the design for this bookcase in the Westminster Archive Centre drawn in 1836 and a very similar example made between 1835 and 1840.
measurements
Height:
38.5 in
Width:
72 in
Depth:
18.5 in
declaration
Wick Antiques Ltd has clarified that the A Late William IV Rosewood Breakfront Open Bookcase, by Gillows (LA501691) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being Circa 1836
location
This A Late William IV Rosewood Breakfront Open Bookcase, by Gillows is located in Hampshire, United Kingdom

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