Two Gillow Cabinets on Stands
Two Gillow Cabinets on Stands
English
circa 1890 - 1910
A near identical pair of late 19th century early 20th century Gillow cabinets on stands in the style of 17th century Dutch Colonial or Portuguese style and influence. The cabinets are made with burr oak, coromandel and rosewood.
The tops of the cabinets are veneered in rosewood above engraved gilt brass mounts that adorn the smaller rosewood and larger coromandel banding that frame each cupboard door. The doors are hinged with central gilt brass escutcheons, burr pollard oak door panels and to open to reveal two shelves in one cabinet and one single shelf in the other.
The cabinets sit above ebonised stands that have single full length mahogany lined drawers that retain the original gilt brass engraved handles. They sit above bobbin turned legs united by conforming peripheral stretchers. One cabinet drawer is stamped GILLOW with the maker's impress (as shown in the photos). The other cabinet is impressed with the maker's inventory stock number and the prefix of 'L' to the underside of the drawer, L47988 dating the cabinet to 1909.
Condition
The other cabinet measures 143.30cm high, 91.00cm wide and 39.00cm deep.
Literature
Regional Furniture 1998
'The Journal of Regional Furniture Society', page. 66
Making or Working Numbers
'Serial numbers preceded by the prefix 'L' were introduced in about 1870 and added to the top of the furniture in addition to the Lancaster firm's name. The practice of allocating work numbers was not a new one as some drawings in Gillows' eighteenth-century Estimate Sketch Books have such numbers included in the estimates.
The numbers which appear on the Lancaster branch output from the 1870s could be stamped in a variety of places, such as alongside the name stamp, or hidden away under a stretcher or a drawer.'
THE WARING & GILLOW Company formed in 1897
'During the 1890s Gillows began to co-operate with the firm of S.J.Waring and Sons;
Samuel James Waring senior and his sons Samuel James junior and Harold were very successful Irish linen merchants who opened a branch in Liverpool, and later opened another in Oxford street, London.
Waring & Gillow were an English furniture manufacturer, formed in the late 19th century merging 'Gillows of Lancaster and London' with 'Waring of Liverpool' and exhibited at the Great Paris Exhibition of 1900.
Reference: photo of ‘Waring & Gillow Ltd’ advertisement of an identical cabinet taken from the book 'The Burlington Magazine Monograph - III' 'Georgian Art' 1929.
Dimensions
Height 143.30cm (56.42 inches)
Width 91.50cm (36.02 inches)
Depth 40.00cm (15.75 inches)
Stock No: 11623
£8,850.00
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