A pair of Regency mahogany bed-steps attributed to Gillows

Each with three treads with green and gilt tooled leather inset tops and reeded edges, the hinged top step above a hinged sliding middle step with Greek key double mouldings to the fronts, with panelled sides, on reeded turned tapering legs and spool feet, 53m wide, 66cm deep, 69cm high. (2)

See J.Hardy, ‘Gillows at Tatton Park’, Furniture History, 1970, p.11B which illustrates one of three surviving bed-steps supplied by Gillows of Lancaster of this pattern to Tatton Park, Cheshire for Wilbraham Egerton (1781-1856). Originally six bed-steps of this type were supplied, each covered with cloth - blue for the Blue Bedroom, scarlet for the Morine Bedroom and green for the Chintz Bedroom. Two of the surviving bed-steps carry the names of craftsmen, namely Thomas Myers and William Lupton, 1811.