A Regency style mahogany caned stool in the style of Gillows, together with a 20th century American Rand McNally globe on mahogany stand

The stool in good restored condition; some minor separation over lines of construction at X-form joins of legs; overall with minor nicks, scratches, scuffs and bruises. The globe in good restored condition; small holes off the west coast of Central America, and the Philippines' old repaired cracks with infilling and some inpainting around the equator line; scratches and tearing to the surface of the globe around Antarctica; overall with some stains, scratches and dents. The stand in fair restored condition; appears to be adapted; the horizon ring with a diagonal break above one leg with subsequent tearing and losses to the paper of the horizon ring; some small losses and wear to the paper of the horizon ring; slight separation of one end of frieze with top of one leg; the stretchers and support for the globe appear to be later; overall with old marks, scratches, scuffs and bruises.
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The X-frame stool of the present lot is after a Gillows design found in the Estimate Sketch Book in 1827; however, the firm had illustrated an X-frame stool as early as the 1760s and supplied eight X-frame stools (six in satinwood and two in mahogany) to Wilbraham Egerton of Tatton Park, Cheshire in 1812.  A pair of these stools is illustrated in Susan Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London, 1730-1840, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, 2008, vol. I, p. 217, pl. 197.  An almost identical pair of X-frame stools attributed to Gillows sold Christie's, London, June 4, 2009, lot 134.  See: N. Goodison & J. Hardy, 'Gillows at Tatton Park', Furniture History, 1970, p. 22.