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Click here to subscribeλ A REGENCY ROSEWOOD SIDE CABINET IN THE MANNER OF JOHN MCLEAN, C.1810 with gilt brass mouldings, the raised back with a brass gallery and turned column supports, above a frieze drawer, originally fitted with a writing surface and inkwell compartment, above a pleated silk cupboard door enclosing a shelf, on ribbed tapering legs and brass castors, with brass side carrying handles 107.2cm high, 53cm wide, 35.5cm deep
A FINE 19TH CENTURY FIDDLEBACK MAHOGANY TWIN PEDESTAL PARTNER'S DESK BY GILLOWS C.1860 the rectangular top with a moulded edge and inset with four panels of later gilt tooled green leather, one side with a central hinged slope, with a detachable rest, on a ratchet, the other side of the desk with a full length hinged slide-out slope on a ratchet and with a detachable rest, the front with three mahogany lined frieze drawers, the central drawer stamped 'Gillow', with three further drawers to each pedestal, with hinged Wellington-type locking bars, each with a sliding cover to reveal a key escutcheon, the sides with pull-out slides above twin panels, the back with three frieze drawers, the central one stamped 'Gillow', above a pair of cupboards, each enclosing a shelf, the kneehole with panelled corner brackets, on a plinth base with centrally located castors, with replaced gilt ring handles 81.8cm high, 149cm wide, 94cm deep Catalogue Note A design for a desk with the same configuration of hinged writing surfaces and pull-out slides, but with two legs to the front, features in the 'Gillows Estimate Sketch Books', 12th January 1860 pl.6397, City of Westminster Archives. It was produced for 'Messrs B & K for Rall Esq. A mahogany writing table.'
Sir William Crookes OM PRS (1832-1919), stereoscopic glass diapositive portrait of the celebrated chemist, physicist and inventor Sir William Crookes, taken as a 'ghostly' double-exposure of Sir William seated at his desk in the library at 7 Kensington Park Gardens, his home since 1880, with specimens, plaque presented to him and equipment around, including a Brewster stereoscope and, most notably, on a shelf behind, the three-dimensional double-spiral model of the periodic table, constructed by Sir William in 1888, with later additions, and now in the Science Museum in London, image with manuscript label to upper edge '341. Taken in the Library, 7KPG', circa 1905, G (1); Sir William was very involved in spiritualism at this period of his life, so his ghostly appearance is presumably intentional; with views of houses, with printed labels for 'Sir William Crookes FRS', one with 'Private Research Laboratory', Chillingham Castle, famously haunted building, dated 'Oct. '04' (1) and Ardkinglas, home of his friend and fellow-physicist Sir Andrew Noble, dated '7/8/12' (2), G, some fingerprints and foxing to cover glass; (4)
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