A PAIR OF EARLY VICTORIAN GONCALO ALVES OCCASIONAL TABLES

A PAIR OF EARLY VICTORIAN GONCALO ALVES OCCASIONAL TABLES

BY GILLOWS, C.1840

each with a shaped rectangular tray top above a turned stem, a cluster column and a tripod base (2)

74cm high, 35cm wide, 26cm deep

Provenance

Purchased from Patric Capon, Upper Street, London, 8th June 2000, for £6,500.

The selected contents of Dinton Hall, Buckinghamshire.

Catalogue Note

See Gillows Estimate Sketch Books, p.3170 drawn on 16 July 1822, held at the Westminster City Archives for a sketch of a similar table.

Susan E. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London, 1730-1840, Volume II, p.97, plate 644 for a similar pair of 'flower tables' in rosewood.