Rare Pair of Gillows Antique Quality Satinwood Waterfall Bookcases

Superior quality pair of antique Edwardian rosewood open bookcases having magnificent quality rosewood tops with rounded corners, adjustable shelves, reeded gilded ebonised columns s...

Quality antique William IV mahogany bookcase having a shaped cornice to the upper section over a pair of mahogany doors with brass grilles opening to reveal an interior with three ad...

Each crossbanded in rosewood, with four graduating shelves, with turned tapering reeded supports, brass caps and casters. The pair of bookcases have recessed reeded columns in the Pompeian manner and are framed by ‘ribboned’ rosewood. In 1801, Gillows of London and Lancaster supplied a closely related pair of bookcases to Luke Dillon, 2nd Lord Clonbrock to furnish his new library at his ancestral home, Clonbrock in Co. Galway. They were sold by Mr. and Mrs Luke Dillon-Mahon, Clonbrock, Christie’s house sale, 1st November 1976, Lot 12. The fashionable ‘moving bookcase’ of this type featured in Thomas Sheraton’s Appendix to the Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer’s Drawing Book, 1802 (pl.23). Provenance: Most likely supplied to Robert Ferguson...

A fabulous pair of Edwardian mahogany open waterfall bookcases, finely carved, of neat proportions with deeply rich patination and grain. The four moulded graduated shelves are set ...