Satinwood Inlaid Mahogany Cylindrical Writing Desk

No: 11155

Gillows of Lancaster

Gillows of Lancaster, a Sheraton Period Satinwood Inlaid Mahogany Cylindrical Writing Desk, having an arched gallery with two drawers and two cupboard doors with ebony and boxwood line inlay raised on a cylinder bureau base enclosing eight arched pigeon holes and four small drawers and a red leather writing slope stamped GILLOWS LANCASTER to the front edge raised on two cross banded drawers above a pair of concave fabric and brass grille doors, the whole raised on square section tapered bracket feet. This fine example retains the original oval handles and paterae as well as extensive ebony and boxwood stringing.

Circa 1795 Price: £18,000-00p

Height: 65”, 162 cms Width: 36”, 92cms Depth: 23”, 58.3 cms.

Literature

Stuart, S.E. (2008). Gillows of Lancaster and London, 1730-1840: Volume II. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Antique Collector’s Club. pp 24-28, 335. Plates 555-561, an almost identical piece with W.R.Harvey in 2001, Handles: see D9a.

(Note: includes reference to original design drawn in the Gillows Estimate Sketch Book on 1 July 1794, available at Harvey’s).

Lindsay Boynton, “Gillow Furniture designs 1760-1800”