A George III mahogany serpentine dressing chest, circa 1770, in the manner of Gillows, the shaped top with moulded edge above a slide flanked by divisions, the slide retracting to reveal an arrangement of lidded divisions, above three further drawers and shaped bracket feet, 86cm high, 109cm wide, 53cm deep For two very similar dressing chests or commodes, see Susan E. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster& London, 1730 - 1840, Antique Collectors Club, 2008, Volume II, pages 11 & 12. John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke and 9th Earl of Dorset ordered one of the illustrated commodes from the firm's Oxford Street premises. The illustrated examples do not have lids or covers to the divisions as the current example being offered does, however a drawn plan clearly including covers for all appropriate divisions and 'Boxes' dated 1781 is illustrated on page 10 ( ibid.) The chest almost certainly supplied to John Frederick Sackville by Gillows was sold by Christie's, Important English Furniture & Carpets, 9th June 2005, Lot 279, (£33,600).
A George III mahogany serpentine dressing chest, circa 1770, in the manner of Gillows, the shaped top with moulded edge above a slide flanked by divisions, the slide retracting to reveal an arrangement of lidded divisions, above three further drawers and shaped bracket feet, 86cm high, 109cm wide, 53cm deep For two very similar dressing chests or commodes, see Susan E. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster& London, 1730 - 1840, Antique Collectors Club, 2008, Volume II, pages 11 & 12. John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke and 9th Earl of Dorset ordered one of the illustrated commodes from the firm's Oxford Street premises. The illustrated examples do not have lids or covers to the divisions as the current example being offered does, however a drawn plan clearly including covers for all appropriate divisions and 'Boxes' dated 1781 is illustrated on page 10 ( ibid.) The chest almost certainly supplied to John Frederick Sackville by Gillows was sold by Christie's, Important English Furniture & Carpets, 9th June 2005, Lot 279, (£33,600).
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