CIRCA 1830, AFTER A DESIGN BY GILLOWS

Name: A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS
Brand: CIRCA 1830, AFTER A DESIGN BY GILLOWS
Price: 1900.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 2,375

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GBP 2,000 - GBP 3,000

Closed: 1 Jun 2020

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A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS

CIRCA 1830, AFTER A DESIGN BY GILLOWS

Price Realised GBP 2,375

Closed: 1 Jun 2020

Price Realised GBP 2,375

Closed: 1 Jun 2020

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Each with a shell-form back painted with a crest, on C-scrolled supports with reeded rail and sabre legs
32¹⁄₄ in. (82 cm.) high; 16³⁄₄ in. (42.5 cm.) wide; 20 in. (51 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

This pair of Grecian hall chairs with their Venus-shell and ‘C’ scroll chair-backs are closely related to a set of hall chairs, stamped ‘Gillows Lancaster’, in the entrance hall of Abbot Hall, Kendal (illustrated A. Woodward, ‘Abbot Hall, Kendal’, 9 September 1993, fig. 3). Hall chairs of similar form and featuring the Gillows’ stamp are illustrated in M. Burkett, London, 1969, pl. 114. Another pair of related chairs sold Christie’s, New York, 9 April 2003, lot 53 ($9,321 inc. premium), and a further pair sold, Christie’s, New York, 15 October 2019, lot 308; both pairs bore stamped initials, indicative of them being made by Gillows’ journeymen.
The crest is that of the Waller family of Braywick Lodge, Berkshire, possibly for Sir Jonathan Wathen Waller, 1st Baronet (1769-1853), who was the eye doctor ('surgeon oculist') from 1816 to George III and his son William IV.
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