A pair of Regency rosewood, brass-inlaid and parcel-gilt side cabinets, circa 1810, attributed to Gillows

each pair of doors enclosing two shelves

Comparative Literature:
Margaret Jourdain, Regency Furniture, 1965, p. 81, fig. 192
Susan Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London, 1730-1840, 2008, 2 vols., vol. I, p. 212, pl. 188 and vol. II, p. 96, pl. 643.

Good overall condition. Some minor old marks and scratches to the tops. One with some lifting to brass on right edge. Rubbing to the gilding of the monopodia including small chips. The gilding appears to be original. Pleated silk replaced. Brass moulding to plinths rubbed and with old indentations and lifting very slightly in areas. One interior shelf with repair to front edge. One cabinet half a centimetre narrower. General old marks and scratches. Good colour and patina.
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A pair of day beds supported by very similar lion monopodia, was supplied by Gillows of Lancaster to Colonel Hughes of Kinmel Park, Denbighshire in 1805. One of the beds is recorded in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated in Margaret Jourdain, op. cit.,  p. 58, fig. 108; the other was sold Christie's Sheringham Hall, 22nd-23rd October 1986, lot 151. Kinmel Park was re-modelled and improved by Samuel Wyatt at the time of the Gillow commission, and it is possible that Wyatt was responsible for the design of the furniture, although similar lion monopodia appear in all the leading pattern books of the Regency period.

Closely related cabinets, likewise attributed to Gillows include a pair of parcel-gilt rosewood cabinets sold from Savoy Croft, Ayrshire by Phillips, Glasgow, July 1991; a pair of marble topped rosewood side cabinet, sold Sotheby's London, 19 November 1993, lot 143; and a single marble topped rosewood side cabinet sold Christie's London, 17 April 1997, lot 235.