A George III mahogany bureau cabinet, circa 1760, in the manner of Gillows of Lancaster, the dentil moulded cornice above two ribbed panel cupboard doors applied with stop fluted flat columns and enclosing two adjustable shelves and four short drawers over a fall font enclosing a central scallop shell carved arched central door and stop fluted columnar letter slides, further semi-secret stop fluted letter slides, pigeon holes, shaped short drawers and shallow carved apron drawers over a shaped gilt tooled morocco skiver cockbeaded drawer and two short loper drawers above three long graduated cockbeaded drawers between rounded stop fluted quarter columns and raised on ogee bracket feet with open work brass swing handles and lock plates, 117cm wide, 60cm deep, 220cm high

Footnote: Inside the door of this cabinet is some literature relating to the Utopian Society, Eva Anstruther (Toddington Manor), Marian C. Brodrick and the Scratch Society 1890-91. There is a scrawled address, 27 Ebury Street, Chester Place. The brass furniture on this piece is virtually identical to that found on the Inaman clothes press, 1759, illustrated in Susan E. Stuart's 'Gillows of Lancaster and London', Volume II, Plate 590 page 49. The press in the Gillows book also sports stop fluted flat columns, albeit with more elaborate capitols. The press was almost certainly made for Mr. Charles Inman and Satterthwaite in 1759

Condition Report

The fall front has probably been replaced and the shaped skiver is to disguise this issue. There are cracks to the sides and small damages throughout. The cabinet top sits upon blocks rather than inside the frame of the bottom so there must have been alterations.

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