Untitled
attributed to Gillows of Lancaster
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1825 - circa 1830
Materials
Rosewood, cane, leather, horsehair
Place of origin
Lancaster or London
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 435014
Summary
A set of twelve rosewood and cane-seated chairs, English, circa 1820 - 1830, almost certainly by Gillows of Lancaster or Gillow & Co., of Oxford Street, London. With a concave toprail carved with tendrils and a palmette, above a horizontal and bead-carved splat, with foliate-wrapped ends. The seat of cane, and with fitted squab cushions of buttoned green leather. The frame with slots to secure the squab ribbons. The front seat rail carved with a palmette; the front legs turned, tapering and reeded and headed by anthemion. The seat rails stamped 'PRESTON'. -- These chairs are attributed to Gillows on the basis of their similarity to other examples which bear the impressed mark 'GILLOWS', which also have slotted frames to accommodate the cushions with which these chairs seem to have been provided [Stuart, Vol. I, pp. 221 - 223]. Gillows supplied other furniture to Belton House in the first half of the 19th century. The impressed mark 'PRESTON' to some of these chairs may well be the mark of the craftsmen who made them.
Provenance
Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) from Edward John Peregrine Cust, 7th Baron Brownlow, C. St J. (b.1936) in 1984.
Marks and inscriptions
Preston
Makers and roles
attributed to Gillows of Lancaster , cabinetmaker
References
Stuart, Susan 'Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730 - 1840' (2008) 2 vols., Vol. I, pp. 221 - 3