Description

A modest George IV mahogany chiffonier dating to about 1825, having an upper section with two mahogany shelves with a gallery supported on finely carved brackets, two rectangular mahogany doors with brass grilles and silk lined panels and having reeded feet, enclosing adjustable mahogany shelves. the door signed Gillows of Lancaster.

Size 40 cm D x 92 W x 152 H

Condition good, commensurate with age and anticipated wear

Stock number 3347

Price £5,200

Gillows of Lancaster and London, also known as Gillow & Co., was an English furniture making firm based in Lancaster, Lancashire, and in London. It was founded around in Lancaster in about 1730 by Robert Gillow (1704–1772)

Gillows was owned by the family until 1814 when it was taken over by Redmayne, Whiteside, and Ferguson; they continued to use the Gillow name. Gillows furniture was a byword for quality, and other designers used Gillows to manufacture their furniture. Gillows furniture is referred to by Jane Austen, Thackeray and the first Lord Lytton, and in one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic operas.[3][a] In 1903 Gillows merged with Warings of Liverpool to become Waring and Gillow and although the furniture remained of a high quality it was not as prestigious.