Apter-Fredericks

Important 18th & 19th Century Antique Furniture

Gillows

A Regency Mahogany Games Table Attributable to Gillows of Lancaster
A Regency Period Dining Table by Gillow of Lancaster
A Pair of George III Mahogany Armchairs Attributed to Gillow of Lancaster
A Fine and Rare PAIR of Regency Period Rosewood End-Support Tables By Gillows
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ROBERT & RICHARD GILLOW

"Gillow" has almost passed into the language as a measure of quality. In about 1695 Robert Gillow founded his firm in Lancaster. His son, Richard, who was taken into partnership in 1757, invented the telescopic dining table in 1800. The firm opened a London branch in Oxford Street about 1777. Such was the size of their business that they owned their own fleet, bringing timber to Lancaster from the colonies.

A Fine and Rare PAIR of Regency Period Rosewood End-Support Tables By Gillows

Height: 28.5" 72cm
Width: 41" 1m 04
Depth: 28.5" 72cm

Each having a well figured and finely faded rectangular top with 'butterfly' corners and supported on curved end supports with applied reeded mouldings and encasing three spindle turned columns. The legs terminate in the original chased brass castors.

English, 1820

The design of these tables is almost identical to one supplied by Gillow of Lancaster November 8th 1818 to Ferguson & Co at a cost of £5 15s 4d
Illustrated by Wills in 'Craftsmen & Cabinet makers of classic English Furniture', Edinburgh 1974 pp118. 122 figs 109 110.