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George IV Mahogany Mechanical Escritoire Attributed to Gillows (1 of 10)
Wick Antiques Ltd
Flag of United KingdomHampshire, UK
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George IV Mahogany Mechanical Escritoire Attributed to Gillows

REF: LA478262
£5,800
€6,775
$7,296
Certified DealerApproved item413 sales by dealer
Certified DealerApproved item413 sales by dealer
Description
Early 19th Century (c.1820) English George IV antique mahogany mechanical escritoire attributed to Gillows, of rectangular form with a vertical superstructure on reeded cabriole legs with a turned stretcher and the original brass castors, pulling out the frieze drawer triggers a mechanism which extends the leather-inset fitted desktop and rolls up the front panel to reveal a central shelf surrounded by eight small drawers and eight pigeonholes, decorated with cross-banding and herring bone veneers. Footnote: Susan E Stuart in ‘Gillows of Lancaster and London, 1730-1840,’ Antique Collectors’ Club, Woodbridge, 2008 Vol.II, p381, pl. Gg34, illustrates a similar secretaire writing desk. The first published version of this design appeared in Ackermann’s Directory in January1810 and it was also illustrated in the Lancaster Estimate Sketch Book that same year.
measurements
Height:
50.5 in
Width:
43 in
Depth:
22.5 in
declaration
Wick Antiques Ltd has clarified that the George IV Mahogany Mechanical Escritoire Attributed to Gillows (LA478262) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being c.1820
location
This George IV Mahogany Mechanical Escritoire Attributed to Gillows is located in Hampshire, United Kingdom

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