A REGENCY MAHOGANY CHAMBER WRITING TABLEATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1815The top with a central hinged section enclosingpartments for ink pots, pens and stamps74cm high, 71cm wide, 52.5cm deepProvenance: Purchased from Marks Antiques, Curzon Street, London, 1999. A sketch for this type of table appears in Gillows Estimate Sketch Books, dated 1810, and called by them a 'chamber writing-table' (No 344/144, p.11. Westminster City Archives). Gillows supplied four tables of this pattern in 1811 to T.W. Egerton for Tatton Park, Cheshire (N. Goodison and J. Hardy. 'Gillows at Tatton Park, Cheshire'. Furniture History, 1970, pp.28, 30, 32 and 35, pl. 16B). For a closely related example, see Christie's, Important English Furniture, 14th June 2001, Lot 177 (15,275). For a further example by Gillows see Christie's, Hackwood Park, 22nd April 1998, Lot 366 (12,650).