Untitled
attributed to Gillow and Co.
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1820 - circa 1830
Materials
Beech and lime, paint, gilding, silk and satin, brass
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 960306
Summary
A set of five pieces of white-painted and parcel-gilt seat furniture, probably supplied by Gillow & Co., circa 1820 - 1830. The set comprising a daybed, a pair of sofas and a pair of bergere armchairs. All parcel-gilt and painted white, and now upholstered in striped tabouret replicating their original upholstery. Some pieces fitted with brass castors, some are lacking them.
Full description
Attributed to Gillow & Co. on the basis of its similarity to a documented set supplied by Gillows to Wentworth Woodhouse in 1832, and to pieces illustrated in Gillows' room settings, now at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Payments are recorded to Gillows' London shop in Oxford Street in 1825 and 1826, where this kind of specialist gilded furniture was made. The suite may have been made for the Tapestry Room at Nostell, which was left unfurnished in the 18th century, although the sofas and bergeres are first recorded in the Saloon in a photograph, circa 1870. Other pieces at Nostell Priory thought to have been supplied in the 1820s are; NT 959817, a folio stand; NT 959802.1 and .2, a pair of console tables; NT 959747, a dining table; NT 959815, a hall stand; NT 960306.1 - .5, a suite of giltwood seat furniture; NT 959719, a sofa, a suite of library bookcases and NT 959701, an 'X'-frame stool.
Provenance
Probably purchased by Charles Winn (d. 1874), and thence by descent until purchased by the National Trust in 2002 with the assistance of the National Heritage Memoria] Fund (NHMF), the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), and the National Art Collections Fund (NACF).
Makers and roles
attributed to Gillow and Co., designer attributed to Gillow and Co., cabinetmaker
References
Stuart, Susan 'Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730 - 1840' (2008) 2 vols. Raikes, 2003: S.Raikes. ““A cultivated eye for the antique”: Charles Winn and the enrichment of Nostell Priory in the nineteenth century.” Apollo 157.494 (2003): pp.3-8.