OF GRAND SCALE , these imposing 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. Ideal as large side/ end tables either side of a settee.
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
78 cm. high, 55 cm. wide, 74 cm. deep
Ref 5844
POA
Ref No: 5844