Regency Mahogany Extending Dining Table Attributed to Gillows of Lancaster

A fine Regency mahogany centre table in the manner of Gillows of Lancaster; the four-splay reeded sabre leg base with turned pillar; the figured mahogany top with kingwood cross-band...

A handsome William IV mahogany extending dining table to seat 10-14 people; three original leaves and brass lever clips; good oak telescopic action.

A good Regency triple pillar dining table in figured mahogany, only 48” wide, handsome four splay pedestals with their original tops, the stems with 2 ebonised turnings matching the black ebony stringing in the sabre legs. The castors stamped with a crown & E S & P patent. Original catches in old lacquer. The blocks veneered in mahogany - unusually the bearers are screwed onto the blocks rather than dowelled which means the table can be easily disassembled and packed into a smaller crate...

An attractive Regency dining table in figured mahogany, the veneered frieze above three elegant 4 splay bases: handsome turned pillars and sabre legs with carved moulded tops and the...

Opulent Victorian dining table in mahogany that extends We date this to circa 1880 and it is in the Gillows manner Extends via the windup mechanism and has three leaves (each measuri...

An Exceptional Quality Early 19th Century, Regency Period, Mahogany "Imperial" Extending Dining Table, To Seat Between 12 & 16, Having Telescopic Sliding Action To Each D End, With T...

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 superior quality extending mahogany dining table firmly attributed to Gillows and conforming precisely to a design in the Lancashire pattern books dated 1804. The reeded-edge top consisting of two hinged ends attached to short beds which join together to form a Pembroke-type table when all of the leaves are removed. The original and complete set of two narrow and two wider leaves are interchangeable and sit on the telescoping bed which is raised on elegant turned and reeded legs with brass castors. The four legs at each corner are fixed and the two central legs screw in when the table is extended. Ref: Gillows of Lancaster and London, 1730-1840, by Susan Stuart, p. 242, pl.241: In identically designed table made for Broughton Hall...