The eared shaped rectangular top above a frieze drawer with serpentine-fluted apron centred by an acanthus spray and flanked by a cellaret drawer and a fitted drawer previously lined, the sides inlaid with ebony lines and the right-hand side with a small spring door, on fluted tapering legs, restorations to the top, previously with a gallery
37 in. (94 cm.) high; 72 in. (183 cm.) wide; 32 in. (81 cm.) deep

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 13 November 1997, lot 115.
Property of a Gentleman; Christie's, London, 12 November 2020, lot 173, where acquired by the present owner.

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The sideboard corresponds to designs in the Gillows' Estimate Sketch Books, illustrated in L. Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Leeds, 1995, figs. 93, 94 and 99. All of these designs are dated late 1780s but it was customary for Gillows to continue making popular pieces over many years. The present sideboard is similar to one ordered by Messrs. Calvert & Harrison in 1791 (see ESB, 344/95, p. 788, illustrated in S. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, Woodbridge, 2008, vol. I, p. 318, plate 360), while another bearing the impressed stamp 'GILLOWS, LANCASTER' is included as plate 361 in Stuart, op. cit.
A related sideboard, serpentine in shape with applied bellflower swags to the stiles and with an oval sunflower patera in place of the acanthus spray on the present lot, is illustrated in P. Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. ed., London, 1954, p. 134, fig. 27, and another almost identical to the latter was sold from the collection of the late Simon Sainsbury, Christie's, London, 18 June 2008, lot 94 (£49,250 including premium).