Beschreibung:

A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY EXTENDING DINING-TABLE
CIRCA 1830, PROBABLY BY GILLOWS
The rounded rectangular top with a reeded edge and seven additional leaves on ten reeded tapering legs with brass caps and castors
73cm high, 520cm long extended, 140cm wide
Together with an associated mahogany leaf holder
 
In 1813 Gillows of London and Lancaster supplied a similar 'Set of mahogany Imperial dining tables on stout twined [sic] reeded legs and brass socket casters' for Broughton Hall, Yorkshire at a cost of 50 gns. Prior to this, Richard Gillow had taken out a patent in 1800 for an extending table, known as the 'Patent Imperial dining-table' (M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture 1795-1830, London, rev.ed., 1965, p. 64-65, fig. 130).
A similar dining-table also attributed to Gillows, was sold by The Lord Brownlow, Belton House, Lincolnshire, Christie's house sale, 30 April-2 May 1984, lot 92. Although no accounts relating to the Brownlow commission appear to have survived, there can be little doubt that much of the furniture at Belton, like this dining-table, was supplied by Gillows. And while there is no certainty the present lot was supplied by Gillows it might be noted that the firm fulfilled a very significant commission (comprising of more than two hundred items of furniture) for Wilbraham Egerton at nearby Tatton Park, principally in 1811-12.
A similar table was sold Christie's, London, 31 October 2012, lot 113 (£34,450 including premium) and another was sold Christie's, London, 14 November 2013, lot 104 (£32,500 including premium).