A George III oval purplewood and chevron banded satinwood marquetry Pembroke table by Gillows, 1788, executed by T. Atkinson

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Supplied to John Christian Curwen (1756–1828) for the Breakfast Room at Workington Hall, Cumbria and probably removed to Belle Isle, Windermere, in the 1930s when Workington Hall was given up;
Thence by descent.

Estimate Sketch Book, 4 October 1788, p. 414, described as 'a Table made like this only with turned legs for the Breakfast Room' (Westminster Archives Centre, 344/94);
Waste Book, 12 October 1788, p. 2558 (Westminster Archives Centre, 344/12);
E. W. Hodge, ‘Belle Isle – II, Westmorland’, Country Life, 10 August 1940, p. 121, fig. 4.

This Pembroke was supplied en suite with lot 70 and is described beneath the design in Gillows' Estimate Sketch Book as 'a Table made like this only with turned legs for the Breakfast Room'.