GillowS CURULE Library Chairs
Lancaster, circa 1850
Walnut, red Morocco leather seat.
Stamped ‘Gillow’ and numbered 15386, the companion bearing workshop mark C31.
Minor tear and abrasions to the original leather, consummate with age.
£4, 250
Gillows of Lancaster produce some of the greatest British furniture of the 19th century. These elegant curule chairs were inspired by classical Roman and Renaissance European x-frame seats and are characterised by intersecting, serpentine legs.