A nest of specimen wood tables by Gillows

A nest of Regency specimen wood tables by Gillows of Lancaster

Each of these four tables has a rectangular top and rosewood edge, the largest decorated with an amboyna field within rosewood banding, the second rosewood within amboyna, the third bird’s eye maple within amboyna and the smallest with a chess board of all the above woods and a small drawer, all on rosewood turned baluster spindle legs joined by stretchers, the smallest with a concave satinwood stretcher. English, circa 1815. A very similar set of tables, reputedly supplied by Gillows to the Senhouse family of Lancashire, c.1810, is illustrated in Geoffrey Beard and Judith Goodison ‘English Furniture 1500-1840’, 1987, p.254, fig.3.

Height: 29½in (74cm) Width: 22¾in (58cm) Depth: 15¼in (39cm)