Furniture, Clocks & Works of Art
Furniture, Clocks & Works of Art
Property from the Curwen collections at Workington Hall, Ewanrigg Hall and Belle Isle, Cumbria
A George III mahogany wardrobe by Gillows, 1788, possibly executed by William Stubbs
Auction Closed
November 9, 01:23 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Curwen collections at Workington Hall, Ewanrigg Hall and Belle Isle, Cumbria
A George III mahogany wardrobe by Gillows, 1788, possibly executed by William Stubbs
the cavetto cornice with dentil frieze above crossbanded panelled cupboard doors enclosing a later clothes rail, the lower section with two short drawers above two long drawers on bracket feet
193cm. high, 127.5cm. wide, 63cm. deep; 6ft. 4in., 4ft. 2¼in., 2ft. 1in.
Thence by descent.
Copy of inventory of the furniture, pictures, silver, E.P.N.S. ware, Sheffield plate and china, the property of Mrs Isabel M Chance, Homeacres, Carlisle. By Telford & Scott, auctioneers & valuers, Carlisle, December 1949, possibly the 'Gents Inlaid Mahogany Chippendale Wardrobe on base with drawers, dentil cornice, 4' wide', p. 3 (Cumbria Archives DCU/1/253).
RELATED LITERATURE
Susan E. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London, 1730-1840, 2008, Antique Collectors' Club, 2008, Vol. II, p. 66, Pls. 611-612.
Gillows supplied John Christian Curwen with ‘a Handsome Mahogany Wardrobe with sliding boxes, good brass locks & furniture & framed backs’ for Belle Isle, Windermere at a total cost of £8. 24s. 12d. including baize lining for the sliding boxes which are now lacking. An almost identical version, with similarly flamed mahogany panelled doors but supported on 'french' feet, was supplied to Robert Phillips in 1798 and executed by a William Stubbs (Stuart, op. cit., p. 66, Pls. 611-612).