EXCEPTIONAL ARTS & CRAFTS OAK DRESSER BY SIDNEY BARNSLEY
£ 38,000.00
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AN EXCEPTIONAL ARTS & CRAFTS OAK DRESSER BY SIDNEY BARNSLEY, CIRCA 1900.
The plate rack with grooved shelves fitted with iron cup hooks, the bow-front base with eight panelled doors, and with a door to each side enclosing three shelves. With exposed dovetails and tenons throughout. Retaining all it’s original wrought-iron handles by Alfred Bucknell.
72.5in. (184cm) high; 84.5in. (214cm) wide; 28in. (71cm) deep.
The plate rack with grooved shelves fitted with iron cup hooks, the bow-front base with eight panelled doors, and with a door to each side enclosing three shelves. With exposed dovetails and tenons throughout. Retaining all it’s original wrought-iron handles by Alfred Bucknell.
72.5in. (184cm) high; 84.5in. (214cm) wide; 28in. (71cm) deep.
Provenance
made for Catherine Powell, daughter of Barnsley’s friends Alfred and Louise Powell, the Arts & Crafts architect and ceramicist respectively.thence by descent until 2023.Literature
an almost identical dresser made in 1897-8 for Barnsley’s own house at Pinbury is illustrated in situ in Mary Comino, Gimson and the Barnsleys, 1980, fig. 52.This dresser was subsequently exhibited at the Arts & Crafts Exhibition in 1899. For a lengthy discussion of this dresser see Comino (op. cit.) pp.86-88.1
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