Card table
manner of Gillows of Lancaster
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1785
Materials
Satinwood, partridge wood, box, deal construction and baize lining
Measurements
73 x 91.5 x 45 cm
Place of origin
Lancaster
Order this imageCollection
Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 453027.1
Summary
One of 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