A GEORGE III MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLE, ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1790 With tooled leather inset top, above three frieze drawers and three opposing drawers78cm high, 149cm wide, 91cm deep Provenance: Private Collection, London.Purchased Phillips of Hitchin Ltd.A virtually identical library table was supplied to the Marquess of Cholmondeley, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, and sold Christie's, Important English Furniture, 24th November 2005, Lot 36 (£40,800). The features of rounded corners to the top surmounting slender reeded columnar legs appear in sketches for a pier table, library table, writing table, chest of drawers and commode. All of the sketches are dated circa 1790 in the Gillow Estimate Sketch Books (L.Boynton (ed.) Gillow Furniture Designs, 1760-1800, Royston, 1995, figs. 15,21,35,115 and 123). Notes Please note: the main title should read 'A GEORGE III MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLE, ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1790', and not as printed in the catalogue. This library table is of sightly earlier date than originally printed in the catalogue.