A GEORGE III MAHOGANY WARDROBE BY GILLOWS

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY WARDROBE BY GILLOWS, POSSIBLY EXECUTED BY WILLIAM STUBBS

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English; Circa 1788

The cavetto cornice with dentil frieze above crossbanded panelled cupboard doors enclosing a later clothes rail, the lower section with two short drawers above two long drawers on bracket feet.

Height 193cm

Width 127.5cm

Depth 63cm

Provenance

Supplied to John Christian Curwen (1756–1828) for Belle Isle, Lake Windermere, Cumbria and possibly removed to Homeacres, Carlisle before 1949;

Literature

Waste Book, 20 May 1788, p. 2344 (Westminster Archives Centre, 344/12);
Copy of inventory of the furniture, pictures, silver, E.P.N.S. ware, Sheffield plate and china, the property of Mrs Isabel M Chance, Homeacres, Carlisle. By Telford & Scott, auctioneers & valuers, Carlisle, December 1949, possibly the 'Gents Inlaid Mahogany Chippendale Wardrobe on base with drawers, dentil cornice, 4' wide', p. 3 (Cumbria Archives DCU/1/253).

Related Literature

Susan E. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London, 1730-1840, 2008, Antique Collectors' Club, 2008, Vol. II, p. 66, Pls. 611-612.

Gillows supplied John Christian Curwen with ‘a Handsome Mahogany Wardrobe with sliding boxes, good brass locks & furniture & framed backs’ for Belle Isle, Windermere at a total cost of £8. 24s. 12d. including baize lining for the sliding boxes which are now lacking. An almost identical version, with similarly flamed mahogany panelled doors but supported on 'french' feet, was supplied to Robert Phillips in 1798 and executed by a William Stubbs (Stuart, op. cit., p. 66, Pls. 611-612).