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A PAIR OF GEORGE IV ROSEWOOD BERGERES ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, THE CRAFTSMAN PROBABLY HENRY HOLMES, CIRCA 1825 Each with curved padded back, arms and squab cushion covered in buttoned brown suede, the outscrolled arms carved with foliage above a panelled seat-rail centred by acanthus, on ring-turned reeded tapering legs with brass caps and castors,with batten carrying-holes stamped 'HH' and inscribed in pencil 'Londonderry (?)' 40 ? in. (102 cm.) high; 30 ? in. (78 cm.) wide; 25 in. (64 cm.) deep
These bergeres may have been supplied to Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, circa 1825, by Gillows. Lord Londonderry is recorded as a client of Gillows' in the Estimate Sketch Books between 1822 and 1825 (Susan Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London, 1730-1840, Vol. II, 2008, p.186).
This pattern of bergere, with robustly carved arms wrapped in foliage and distinct reeded tapering legs, is strongly characteristic of Gillows and relate closely to chairs with the same side scrolls supplied to William, 2nd Baron Bolton (1782-1850) for the Library at Hackwood Park, Hampshire, and sold by the late 2nd Viscount Camrose, Hackwood Park, Christie's house sale, 20-22 April, 1998, lot 55 (£84,000 incl. premium). An almost identical pair of bergeres supplied by Gillows to Morton Davison, Esq., for Beamish Park, Co. Durham, was sold by Mrs. R.D. Shafto, Christie's London, 21 September 1995, lot 168. Another similar bergere was sold anonymously Christie's, London, 18 November 2010, lot 173 (£15,000 incl' premium), while a pair of similar bergeres was sold from the collection of Eric Albada Jelgersma, Christie's, London, 7 December 2018, lot 510 (£118,750 incl' premium)
The stamp 'HH' may relate to the Gillows journeyman Henry Holmes, who is recorded in the Lancaster Estimate Sketch Books from around 1805 and is noted as working until 1834 (Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, p. 445). The same initials appear on sofas supplied to Thomas Wynn, 2nd Baron Newborough for Glynllifon, Caernarvonshire, by Gillows and invoiced in December 1823 (sold by Coleg Meirion Dwyfor, Christie's London, 9 March 2000, lot 102), and on the so-called 'Whistlejacket Suite' of giltwood seat-furniture, sold from Wentworth Woodhouse, Christie's London, 8 July 1998, lot 80. Susan Stuart has suggested that the stamp may relate to a London journeyman as no giltwood furniture appears to have been made in the Lancaster workshops (Stuart, op.cit., p. 244).