Regency Pollard Oak Davenport by Gillows

This rare example is in almost untouched condition and has a spindle gallery to the top above the writing slope retaining the original gilt tooled leather and opening to show two small drawers and two dummy drawers. The front edge is stamped “Gillows” and the original lock is stamped “J Bramah 124 Piccadilly” with a crown over. This whole section slides forward to provide a kneehole. The left side has a pull-out slide and three dummy drawers. The right hand side has an articulated slide-out pen compartment above a pull-out slide and three real drawers, the top one also stamped “Gillows” and all retaining the original stamped locks by Bramah. The whole is raised on a moulded oak base and four reeded bun feet with the original sunken casters. The top drawer on the right side of the desk is signed on the bottom in pencil “Noar” and in Susan Stuart’s books he is recorded in the estimates sketch books index from 1800 – 1850 at 5043,5027 etc. dating his work to between 1830 and 1837 (Vol II Appendix A). This would have been Edmund Noar who was apprenticed to William Blackburne in 1796. (See Vol II, Appendix B, pp 268, 219-220). This piece also still retains the original ebony turned drawer pulls (knobs) throughout