A SET OF TWENTY-FOUR GEORGE IV MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRSBY GILLOWS, CIRCA 1830Each chair with front seat rail stamped 'GILLOWS.LANCASTER', to include two armchairseach 89cm high, 50cm wide, 55cm deep For an example of chair of closely related form and incorporating a near identical top rail, see Susan E. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, Antique Collectors' Club, 2008, volume II, page 244, plate B20. Some of the chairs have pencil signatures to the undersides. This includes 'J. Dixon' which is possibly one of two John Dixons who are recorded as working for Gillows from 1807 and 1814 respectively. Another chair appears to be signed 'R. Law***' which could possibly relate to Robert Lawson who is recorded as working for the firm in the 1820s and 30s. His pencil signature appears to the underside of a related example of chair, see Susan E. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, Antique Collectors' Club, 2008, volume I, page 243, plate 209. For a set of twenty-four dining chairs by Gillows, see Christie's, London, Hackwood Park, 22nd April 1998, Lot 158 (199,500).