A REGENCY ROSEWOOD LIBRARY TABLE, English: circa 1815
Width: 5 ft 6 ¼ in; 168.5 cm
Depth: 3 ft 9 ½ in; 116 cm
Attributed to Gillows, the table has two drawers to each side, retaining the original knob handles, with a paper label on the inside of one drawer inscribed: ‘The British Antique Dealers Association Art Treasures Exhibition Bath 1958, No. 146’.
Provenance
Ayer & Co. Ltd., Bath, England;
Frank Partridge & Sons Ltd., London, England;
Private collection, England.
Exhibitions
Art Treasures Exhibition, Bath, 1958, with Ayer & Co. Ltd., Bath.Literature
George Smith, A Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1808, pl. B, Design for a Sideboard.
Charles Heathcote Tatham, Etchings Representing the Best Examples of Grecian and Roman Architectural Ornament, 2nd edition, 1843, pls 46 & 104.
Illustrated:
Ralph Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, 1964, p. 566, illus. 37.
Margaret Jourdain, Regency Furniture, revised edition, 1964, p. 78, pl. 181.
F. Lewis Hinckley, The More Significant Regency Furniture, 1991, p. 51, pl. 31.
