Victorian Burr-Walnut and Part-Ebonized Kidney-Shaped Desk By Gillows, mid-19th century, the craftsman John Barrow The leather-lined shaped top above a mahogany-lined frieze drawer stamped GILLOW, the lock stamped J. T. NEEDS 128 PICCADILLY, LATE J. BRAMAH 134 PICCADILLY, the drawer underside with penciled inscription John Barrow flanked by five drawers, with a hinged upright locking mechanism headed by a sliding panel, the reverse side with two adjustable shelves, raised on a molded base, on casters. Height 29 inches (73.7 cm), width 52 inches (132 cm), depth 27 inches (68.6 cm). Derived from a design for 'A Kidney Table,...for reading and writing...: at each end are a number of small drawers' from Thomas Sheraton's The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book, 1793, pl. 58, the form of the present lot was very popular during the 19th century. 'An Oak Pedestal and Kidney Table' is found in the Gillows'
Beautiful quality, high degree of craftsmanship, later leather panel to top, with later polishing, probably decades ago, right side and back sunfaded, minor losses and replacements to veneers, old marks and scratches, rubbing to ebonized surfaces, scuffs to plinth, molding to top of back pilaster off but present, Bramah keys present
Victorian Burr-Walnut and Part-Ebonized Kidney-Shaped Desk By Gillows, mid-19th century, the craftsman John Barrow The leather-lined shaped top above a mahogany-lined frieze drawer stamped GILLOW, the lock stamped J. T. NEEDS 128 PICCADILLY, LATE J. BRAMAH 134 PICCADILLY, the drawer underside with penciled inscription John Barrow flanked by five drawers, with a hinged upright locking mechanism headed by a sliding panel, the reverse side with two adjustable shelves, raised on a molded base, on casters. Height 29 inches (73.7 cm), width 52 inches (132 cm), depth 27 inches (68.6 cm). Derived from a design for 'A Kidney Table,...for reading and writing...: at each end are a number of small drawers' from Thomas Sheraton's The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book, 1793, pl. 58, the form of the present lot was very popular during the 19th century. 'An Oak Pedestal and Kidney Table' is found in the Gillows'
Beautiful quality, high degree of craftsmanship, later leather panel to top, with later polishing, probably decades ago, right side and back sunfaded, minor losses and replacements to veneers, old marks and scratches, rubbing to ebonized surfaces, scuffs to plinth, molding to top of back pilaster off but present, Bramah keys present
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