Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 22nd September 2021
Lot 202
A GEORGE III SATINWOOD BOWFRONT CHEST
Estimate £5,000 - £7,000 | Hammer £6500
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Description
A GEORGE III SATINWOOD BOWFRONT CHEST
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, C.1790
inlaid with ebonised and boxwood stringing and with goncalo alves banding, fitted with four long graduated drawers, with silvered handles, on French style swept bracket feet
88cm high, 114cm wide, 63cm deep
Provenance
Acquired by the present owner from Ronald Phillips Ltd. 26 Bruton Street, London, 22nd February 1985.
A Private Collection, London.
Catalogue Note
See Lindsay Boynton, 'Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800', pl.11 for a coloured sketch of a closely related satinwood chest of drawers, which appears in the Estimate Sketch Books 24th October 1789.