Bookcase attributed to Gillows (c. 1820 England)

Rosewood

51.43 cm wide   83.82 cm high   51.43 cm deep

20.25 inches wide  33.00 inches high  20.25 inches deep

The present bookcase relates almost exactly to a design in the Gillows Estimate Sketch books for a bookcase made in 1831 for Ferguson & Co., the London partners. See a similar example illustrated in Susan E Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, 2008, 2 vols., vol.1 p.382

A fine Regency rosewood bookcase. The tooled leather inset top above two grained rosewood shelves, false book spines to the sides.

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