English Late Regency Period Small Rosewood Writing Table Attributed to Gillows

A very nice mahogany and crotch mahogany veneered writing table raised up on marble columns with bronze bases. The writing surface is leather with gold tooling. This table though not...

This beautiful period writing table was constructed in France circa 1790 to 1800 of rich imported mahogany and the woods have been carefully selected to create an overall pattern of ...

This fine classical regency table shows all the signs of a London cabinet making firm. The proportions are great being not overly large but it carries weight and looks masculine and ...

This very fine table made in England around 1830 to 1840 is produced in rare and costly rosewood. The top shows this wood to a degree as the choice veneers are book-matched making t...

This table completely made from the solid is of exceptional quality. The woods selected for the top are well figured and done not in veneer but from the solid timber. The top is supp...

This fine work table made in England, circa 1810 is of an unusual sculptural form and relates to the work of George Smith one of the periods most influential designers. Made of a sar...

A Regency period rosewood sofa games table attributed to Gillows of Lancaster; the top with rounded ends covered in the original distressed leather, with a central reversible chess board which can be removed to display a backgammon board beneath, the frieze with a dummy drawer retaining its original gilded handles and decorated with ormolu mounts; having elegant lyre ends raised on outswept legs terminating in acanthus cap castors. English, circa 1815. Provenance: Hermione Countess of Ranfurly The Countess of Ranfurly was the author of ‘To War with Whitaker’ her memoirs of life in Cairo with Eisenhower. Her husband was the 6th Earl of Ranfurly and the Governor General of Bahamas between 1953 and 1956. Footnote: The design for a rosewood sofa table in the sketch book of 13 April 1813, made for John Gladstone of Liverpool, father of the future Prime Minister, is published in Susan E Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London, 1730-1840, Antique Collectors’ Club, Woodbridge, 2008 Vol I, p.265, pl. 270. When the firm made the ‘sofa backgammon table, to suit the above’ (p267, pls 272 and 273) no expense was spared. With the extra tooled morocco...

A fine early 19th century George IV period writing table / sofa table, showing a richly figured rosewood frame featuring a gilt-tooled black/green leather top with an elevating readi...

A stunning quality late Regency satinwood Davenport, the sliding top section with three-quarter foliate brass gallery above a sloped and hinged leather inset top enclosing an arrange...

A Regency rosewood end support sofa table, attributed to Gillows, the rectangular top with two hinged flaps veneered in continuous figured veneers, the frieze with two drawers and tw...

A Regency brass-inlaid rosewood sofa table attributed to Gillows, the rectangular D-end top with two hinged flaps all inlaid with brass beading to the vertical edges, above two friez...

Rectangular with drop leaves, metal beaded edge, two-drawer frieze with opposing sham drawers, raised on trestle base, saber legs, casters.