A Gillows Mahogany Window Seat circa 1840. With delicately carved detail above the turned legs and scroll ended arms. In excellent condition and beautiful colour. A rare example of Gillows furniture. Lancaster and London; cabinet makers and upholsterers fl. The name’Gillow’ has been associated with furniture making from the 1730s until the end of the 20th century. When Thomas Pennant visited Lancaster in 1772 he observed that some’ingenious cabinet-makers’ worked in the town who made’excellent and neat goods at remarkably cheap rates for export to London and the plantations’. He added approvingly;’Mr. Gillow’s warehouse of these manufactures merits a visit’. In 1807 Thomas Clarke wrote that the firm’s’extensive ware-rooms, stored with every article of useful and ornamental mahogany furniture are. Said to be the best stocked of any in this line, out of the metropolis’. Gillows were also overseas merchants. Their import /export trade included West Indian sugar, cotton, and spirits, as well as exotic hardwoods, and they enjoyed a worthwhile export trade in furniture to both the West Indies and the ports of northern Europe. Although the active participation of the Gillow family ceased in the early 19th century, subsequent partners continued to use the Gillow name. 1813 they retained the name Gillow & Co. And succeeding partnerships such as Waring & Gillow Ltd. (founded 1897), and Waring & Gillow (1932) Ltd. Incorporated the name until its closure at the end of the 20th century. The firm was originally based in Lancaster though a London branch was established in Oxford Street in 1769. The Gillow archives, though incomplete, are the largest and most comprehensive cabinetmaker’s records to have survived in the world. They consist mainly of the firm’s Lancaster records but a few London records have also survived. All are now in Westminster Archive Centre, London. This item is in the category “Antiques\Antique Furniture\Sofas & Chaises”. The seller is “wbc.b.solutions6″ and is located in this country: GB. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Antique: Yes
• Type: window
• Item Height: 40cm
• Material: Mahogany
• Year Manufactured: 1840
• Item Length: 96cm
• Item Width: 28cm
• Colour: Yellow