Attributed to GILLOWS OF LANCASTER & LONDON (1730-1903)

Breakfront Bookcase (1800 England)

Item Stock Code

C20

UK/USA Dimensions

62.00 inch wide 89.75 inch high 20.00 inch deep

European Converted Dimensions

157.48 cm wide 227.96 cm high 50.80 cm deep

Item Literature

Frances Collard, Regency Furniture

Current Item Condition

Good

Item Description / Dealer Expertise

A fine George III breakfront bookcase of compact proportions, attributed to Gillows of Lancaster: in rosewood with boxwood stringing and satinwood banding; attractive turned and tapering column supports. Attributed to Gillows of Lancaster.

The attribution to Gillows is based on stylistic similarities to a rosewood commode supplies by Gillows to Luke Dillon 2nd Lord Clonbrock, Clonbrock, County Galway. See Frances Collard, Regency furniture, page 83 for a photograph of the aforementioned commode.

GILLOWS OF LANCASTER & LONDON

Type	Artist/Maker
Country of origin	England
Started working	1730
Stopped working	1903

Furniture makers: In about 1695 Robert Gillow founded his firm in Lancaster. His son, Richard, was taken into partnership in 1757. The firm opened a London branch in Oxford Street about 1777.
Noble commissions came and in 1800, Richard Gillows took over a patent for an extending dining table which further enhanced the firm's reputation. The history of Gillows is exceptionally complete, as nearly all the order books and salesman's archives still exist. We know that the practice of stamping GILLOWS. LANCASTER started in around 1780 and continued until 1817, which might seem surprisingly early as the design seems to reflect the taste of the early Victorian era, yet it is twenty to thirty years ahead of its time.

Today, it is difficult to comprehend the range of Gillows' business at this time. They traded not only in finished furniture, but also in timber from the West Indies along with sugar and spirits from the same region. They undertook architectural joinery and fitted out entire buildings, providing wall papers, fixtures and fittings. Their salesmen toured the country with books of illustrations lavishly coloured to tempt buyers. Gilllows even pioneered 'flat-packing' in order to offer their clients a reduced price. There was no corner of the furniture trade they did not thoroughly exploit. Between 1780 and 1830, they were the furniture trade, leading in price, fashion and even work practices.

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