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Butchoff Antiques
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GILLOWS OF LANCASTER (worked from 1728)
A Spectacular Marquetry Side Cabinet by Messrs Gillow of Lancaster
( England
1871
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Dimensions
209.00cm wide
154.00cm high
46.00cm deep
(82.28 inches wide 60.63 inches high 18.11 inches deep)
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Provenance
Gillows & Co.. A leading firm of English cabinet-makers, with premises in both Lancaster and London and who, during the 18th and 19th centuries, produced well-designed furniture of the highest quality. Founded in about 1727, the firm thrived by adapting to the needs of a changing society and recognized the potential offered by the expanding middle class market. Gillows became a large company, both designing and manufacturing furniture to the very highest standards, so much so that they supplied the aristocracy and gentry of England at the height of the Empire. They had a ready response to fashionable demand and eventually led the way in the 19th century with some of the finest quality furniture ever produced in England
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Description / Expertise
Of arc-en-arbalette form, rising from flattened turned bun feet, the cabinet veneered in Thuya, Sycamore and Walnut, the central doors having an arrangement of bouquets with musical trophies, and above, ‘lovers knots’ inlaid into a bois noirci background, the side doors glazed, with velvet lined display shelves: between pilasters with floral gilt bronze: enrichments to the base and capitols. The superstructure having a mirrored back, and further bronze highlights. Stamped by the makers, and numbered ‘1225’. which dates its’ manufacture to 1871/1872, as recorded in the Gillows archives in the City of Westminster library.
Circa 1871/1872
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