Collections & Fine Furniture - 16th April 2024
Lot 71
A PAIR OF EARLY VICTORIAN GONCALO ALVES OCCASIONAL TABLES
Estimate £2,000 - £3,000 | Hammer £2520
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Description
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.