Lot 437
A mahogany, partridge-wood and harewood crossbanded Carlton House desk By Gillows of Lancaster
Auction: 21 March 2007 at 11:00 GMT
£8,365
Description
the wrap-around superstructure with a brass urn-and-arabesque gallery and leaf-carved edge enclosing a bank of six short tulipwood crossbanded drawers flanked by cupboard doors and two sloping stationery compartment covers, the gilt-tooled tan leather skiver above three frieze drawers with brass ring handles, the centre drawer stamped GILLOWS, the locks on the flanking drawers stamped GILLOWS OF LANCASTER, the frieze trimmed with bead and reel moulding at the lip and leaf-carved paterae to each corner, on turned and fluted tapering legs headed by stiff lotus leaf capitals, on turned feet, the whole embellished with parcel-gilt highlighting
Dimensions
139cm wide, 107cm high, 67cm deep