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A chair design from the Gillows 1823 sketchbook. Westminster City Archives
61 A WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY CHILD’S CHAIR ON STAND ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS A rare early 19th century mahogany child’s chair on stand, attributed to Gillows, having a shaped moulded back with corner scrolls and fan motif, and a horizontal slat with acanthus leaf and central tablet, with moulded arms on turned and reeded supports connected by a removable bar; upholstered with green and orange patterned fabric above a moulded frieze and on four square section tapering legs, with adjustable footrest to the front, and joined by a turned X-stretcher, and fixed with a wing-nut to a table base with lipped top and plain frieze, terminating in reeded splay feet. Only very few children’s chairs were made, and usually they were to accompany an existing set of dining chairs. A design for a closely matching ‘adult’ chair can be found in Gillows’ sketchbook of 1823. English, circa 1825 Height: 37¾ in; 96 cm Width: 16¼ in; 41.5 cm Depth: 19½ in; 49.5 cm Provenance: Private collection, Wales; Jeremy Ltd., London; Private collection, Canada. Illustrated: Susan E. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London, 1730–1840, 2008, vol. II, p. 360, pl. E26. Literature: Geoffrey Beard and Judith Goodison, English Furniture 1500–1840, 1987, p. 260, illus. 3. Susan E. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London, 1730–1840, 2008, vol. I, p. 221, pl. 204.
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