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A Pair of Regency Mahogany Library Steps.

Circa 1815, in the manner of Gillows.

Of a grand scale, these three tooled leather inset steps, flanked by scroll terminals to the sides and surmounted by a scroll moulded gallery, on reeded turned tapering legs are of typical country house library- drawing room proprtions.

For a pair of steps attributed to Gillows, see Christie's London, The English Collector, 17th May 2017. 

Three pairs of steps were supplied to Wilbraham Egerton (1781-1856) to furnish Tatton Park, Cheshire in 1811 by Gillows of Lancaster (illustrated John Hardy, 'Gillows at Tatton Park', The Journal of the Furniture History Society, Leeds, 1970, pl. 11B).

Provenance: Burrow Hall, Burrow with Burrow, Lancashire.

Dimensions

78 cm. high, 55 cm. wide, 74 cm. deep

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