A LATE GEORGE III PURPLEHEART AND SPECIMEN WOOD WORK TABLE

A LATE GEORGE III PURPLEHEART AND SPECIMEN WOOD WORK TABLE

ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, C.1800-10

the hinged lid inlaid with cube parquetry with various woods including: palm, calamander, maple and partridgewood, enclosing a fitted interior with coromandel lidded compartments and various utensils, on square tapering legs united by in-curved stretchers, on brass castors

75.3cm high, 47cm wide, 39cm deep

Provenance

The contents of The Grange, Wendover.

Catalogue Note

Six work tables with this form of stretcher uniting square tapering legs appear in the Gillows Estimate Sketch Books in the 1790s. The form of parquetry with unusual timbers can be seen in a work box supplied by Robert Gillow IV to Miss Elizabeth Giffard of Neerquis Hall, Flintshire in 1808. For a very similar table see Bonhams Fine English Furniture and Works of Art, 11th March 2009, lot 106.