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How do I identify Gillows furniture?
To identify Gillows furniture, look for the brand's mark. Most pieces feature one, but locations vary. Look under the tabletop, along the edges of the drawers and on the backs of legs and bases. Typically, the mark appears as a stamp, but the company's artisans sometimes drew it in pencil. Find a variety of expertly vetted Gillows furniture on 1stDibs.
1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022
Antique George IV Loo Breakfast Dining Table Gillows Circa 19th Century
By Gillows of Lancaster & London
Located in London, GB
A stunning antique George IV Regency breakfast table in the manner of Gillows, circa 1820 in date. The lovely figured flame mahogany circular top sits on a mahogany hand turned colu...
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Antique 19th Century English Regency Dining Room Tables

Materials

Mahogany

Mid 19th Century Open Armchair attr' Gillows
By Gillows of Lancaster & London
Located in Batley, GB
A mid 19th century country house open armchair. Raised on ebonized turned and carved walnut front legs and arm supports. The rear legs splayed and chamfered and all legs with the ori...
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Antique 19th Century English Victorian Armchairs

Materials

Walnut

18th Century George III Period Mahogany Davenport by Gillows of Lancaster
By Gillows of Lancaster & London
Located in Petworth,West Sussex, GB
Very Fine 18th-Century George III Period Mahogany Davenport by Gillows of Lancaster A fine late 18th-century George III period mahogany Davenport by Gillows of Lancaster retaining e...
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Antique 18th Century British George III Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Mahogany

Very Fine George IV Mahogany and Ebony Partners Desk by Gillows
By Gillows of Lancaster & London
Located in Greenwich, CT
Very fine George IV mahogany and ebony partners desk by Gillows of Lancaster, circa 1825, the tooled double border leather top with cross banding an...
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Antique 1820s English Desks

Materials

Leather, Ebony, Mahogany

Gillows attr. An Aesthetic Movement tilt top dining table with floral inlays
By Gillows of Lancaster & London
Located in London, GB
Gillows of Lancaster attributed. An Aesthetic Movement tilt top dining table with floral inlays to the oval top walnut. Stamped mark under the top 8198
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Antique 1880s Aesthetic Movement Dining Room Tables

Materials

Walnut

Bruce Talbert for Gillow. A Walnut, Amboyna, Ebonized and Gilt Bedroom Suite.
By Gillows of Lancaster & London, Bruce James Talbert
Located in London, GB
Bruce Talbert (1838-1881) for Gillow and co., a rare and important walnut, amboyna, ebonized, and gilt bedroom suite, each with differing carved rosettes, comprising: a triple mirror door wardrobe, 208cm high, 208cm wide, 58cm deep; a pair of bedside lockers, 85cm high, 38cm wide; and a pair of single bedsteads, 124cm wide Provenance: The famous Argentinian writer and suffragette Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979), bought from her estate and shipped back from Argentina. Bruce James Talbert originally trained as a carver and then an architect, and he became an influential and very successful furniture designer. He served an apprenticeship in Dundee and had his own carving business for two years where he learned the skills to apply carved details to furniture and then joined the architectural offices of Charles Edward. In 1856 he moved to Glasgow and worked for the architects W. N. Tait and Campbell Douglas. He moved to Manchester in the early 1860s, where he gained employment with the cabinetmakers Doveston, Bird, and Hull, which was short-lived, then moved to Coventry gaining work with Skidmore's Art Manufactures. In 1863 he won the competition to design the masthead for 'The Building News and in the mid-1860s moved to London, where he started designing furniture for Holland and Sons. His 'Pericles' Gothic sideboard was displayed on their stand at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867 where it was the Grand Prix winner. It was at this point that his most prolific period began and also when he started designing furniture for Gillows of Lancaster in 1868. in the same year, he published his very influential first book 'Gothic Forms Applied to Furniture, Metal Work and Decoration for Domestic Purposes', which he dedicated to George Edmund Street. This was followed in 1876 by 'Examples of Ancient and Modern Furniture, Metalwork, Tapestries and Modern Furniture' and in 1881 by 'Fashionable Furniture. Other companies he designed for were Marsh, Jones and Cribb, Jackson and Graham, and for a short time, was a partner with Daniel Cottier. He designed textiles for Templeton's, Warner's, Cowlishaw, and Barbour and Miller; carpet designs for Templeton's and Brinton and Co.; and his wallpaper designs were printed by Jeffrey and Co. He also designed church metalwork and furniture for Cox and Sons...
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Antique 1880s English Aesthetic Movement Bedroom Sets

Materials

Walnut

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