Card table
manner of Gillows of Lancaster
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1785
Materials
Satinwood, partridge wood, deal, baize
Measurements
73 x 91.5 x 45 cm
Place of origin
Lancaster
Order this imageCollection
Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 453027
Summary
A pair of cross banded satinwood card tables, In the manner of Gillows of Lancaster, English, circa 1785 The hinged top with canted corners and partridge wood and box wood stringing above a conforming frieze and raised on square section tapered legs headed by oval amboyna paterae, spade feet
Provenance
Indigenous collection purchased by the Ministry of Works in 1956 and given to Dyrham Park in 1961
Makers and roles
manner of Gillows of Lancaster , furniture designer and maker