Puritan Values Cabinets

Style of E W Godwin. An Aesthetic Movement ebonized cabinet. The upper shelf with a 3/4 gallery on turned supports with a bevelled mirror below and display area in front. The two doo...

An Aesthetic Movement amboyna and ebonized music cabinet with incised and gilt decoration. The open top with amboyna and incised gilt decoration...

A Moorish corner cabinet by Liberty and Co. Circa 1890. Height 71 1/2, Width at the front 25 1/2, Depth from back corner to front 13".

Wylie and Lochhead. A pair of Arts and Crafts Ash bedside cabinets with wonderful grain to the tops, a cupboard with stylised copper handles, and an open shelf below.

George Montague Ellwood. A rare Arts and Crafts oak purdonium made by J S Henry. A set of chairs also designed by G M Ellwood with similar inlays were exhibited at The Dublin Museu...

Liberty and Co. In the style of Morris and Co. An Arts and Crafts Walnut side cabinet or wash stand with a raised back to the top and canted corners, the angular shape...

Gillows. An Aesthetic Movement side cabinet with hand painted floral panels to the doors and drawers; with a turned gallery to the top and to the lower shelf.

Liberty & Co. A quality Arts & Crafts oak glazed bookcase with stylized heart details and stylized copper handles, flanked by side shelves with twin architectural supports united to ...

Shapland and Petter in the Liberty style. An Arts & Crafts oak music or storage cabinet with slightly angled sides. The top display area with stylized cut-out to the back and extend...

Charles Sydney Spooner, probably made by J H Brandt. A rare oak secretaire cabinet on stand, with quarter veneered panels to the doors and drawers with black and green diamond shaped handles. The doors open to reveal adjustable shelves. The sides and lower stand are all made from solid quarter sawn oak with beautiful figuring. The slightly graduated mouldings to the waist frame the tidy little writing area. Standing on squashed ball feet, united with serpentine entwined stretchers. This is an oak variation of the cabinet Charles Spooner exhibited at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society in 1910. One can see that both cabinets are essentially the same design, one with drawers one with a pull down writing area. Both have quartered veneered panels to the doors, the Mahogany one with applied moulded decoration to the doors. See : illustration below from : Arts and Crafts Furniture by John Andrews. See also : Charles Spooner Arts and Crafts Architect, page 209 illustration 10:28. : Fine Art Society for a Coromandel variation and Puritan Values : Important Furniture Page 1, for a larger four door lacquered panelled variation. Charles Spooner is noted as one of the most influential people and also credited as one of the fathers of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Born at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington (London), Spooner was the second of 5 children of Charles Spooner and Sarah Frances Trinder, who lived at Brook Green, Hammersmith. Spooner became an architect and an instructor of furniture design at the London County Council's Central School of Arts and Crafts. He was a pupil and then assistant of Sir A W Blomfield and in 1890 won the RIBA’s Soane Medallion (Proc RIBA). He specialised in smaller churches and houses turning out some beautiful and complete buildings. He was influenced by E W Godwin and contemporary American architects such as H H Richardson. He was a member of the Society and Protection of Ancient Buildings and the Art Workers Guild, he worked in the tradition of William Morris, teaching...

E.A. Taylor made by Wylie and Lochhead. An Arts & Crafts mahogany display cabinet or sideboard, with upper open shelf and gallery with capped uprights to the sides, a central upper ...

A petite Arts and Crafts mahogany display cabinet in the Anglo-Japanese style with chequer string inlays and carved fern details to the upper sides with stained and coloured leaded f...

Lamb and Co., Manchester, an Anglo-Japanese ebonized and coromandel side cabinet, possibly designed W. J. Estall, with a fret and mistletoe gallery, an upper shelf, a above a bevelle...

Liberty & Co. A Slim Arts & Crafts walnut bookcase with open upper shelves and cupboards below with stylised brass hinges. Measurements are to the cornice.

An outstanding Arts & Crafts display cabinet, with stylized ebony and pewter inlays. Arched bevelled mirror to the back above display area, flanked by two upper shelves stylized inla...

A good quality secessionist style walnut corner display cabinet, with upper and lower open display areas and a beveled glass door to the central display area with stylized brass escu...

J S Henry attributed, An Arts & Crafts flame mahogany display cabinet with stylised floral inlays, the door has a very unusual stylized floral w...

Arts and Crafts Mahogany Music Cabinet designed by G M Ellwood made by J S Henry with a Scottish style enamel plaque to the centre of the upper door, the plaque attributed to Jessie M King...

An Arts & Crafts oak bookcase with a flaring cornice and shaped supports below, teardrop stain glass to the leaded doors with arched tops, and a pair of dr...

Bruce Talbert attributed to Gillows. A rare Aesthetic Movement oak cabinet with parcel-gilt carving to the demilune doors depicting vine grapes and a butterfly to the right, and the...

An English Aesthetic Movement walnut cabinet of architectural form with carved floral decoration to the upper and lower cupboard doors with stylized brass ring pull handles to the do...

Lamb of Manchester, an Aesthetic Movement ebonised and coromandel side cabinet, with a bevelled mirrored and shelved back, a glazed base with a spindle galleried undershelf, stamped ...

Collinson & Lock. An outstanding quality Aesthetic Movement Anglo-Japanese walnut side cabinet with dentil moulding to the cornice and astr...

An Aesthetic Movement Mahogany Corner Cabinet with floral decoration to the upper shelf area, and to the doors incised decoration of circul...

Heals Attributed. An Anglo-Japanese Ebonised small 'Pagoda' style side cabinet with a fretwork, mirrored and shelved top, the base with an asymmetric arrangement of a cupboard and sh...

E. Goodall of Manchester, a fruit wood, inlaid, and leaded glass display cabinet with an array of Glasgow Rose and floral fruitwood inlays. ...

A French Art Nouveau walnut display cabinet, with foliate carving, an arch top, two bevelled glazed doors, eight drawers with Art Nouveau gilt brass handles, on foliate scroll feet. ...

Liberty & Co. George Walton attributed. An Arts & Crafts mahogany display cabinet with original liberty label to the back and 'Liberty & Co. Ltd, London' stamped on the brass locks....

An important Cotswold School walnut breakfront glazed bookcase/cabinet designed by Edward Barnsley, and made by Charles Bray, dated 1932. Provenance Mrs D.E. Neale, commissioned in...

A Secessionist style Arts and Crafts mahogany display cabinet with two upper beveled glass doors, and a central display cabinet with stylised flora...

Heals. In the style of E W Godwin. An English Anglo-Japanese Aesthetic Movement set of ebonized display shelves, with the original beveled oblong mirror to the top, surrounded with fretwork decoration and pagoda sides to the edges of the top shelf and to all the stepped shelves...

Edwards & Roberts. An Edwardian Aesthetic Movement Queen Anne Revival mahogany wall cabinet with floral inlaid swan neck pediment and chequer and line in...

Dr C Dresser attributed an Aesthetic Movement ebonized display cabinet with incised and gilded zig-zag decoration. Probably made for Bushloe House. I wa...

A rare Arts & Crafts oak record cabinet for holding 1978 (LP's do not fit into this cabinet but singles do). With a roll up door retaining the original key ...

Edward William Godwin. Made by Collinson & Lock. A fine quality Anglo Japanese mahogany and astragal glazed cabinet with satinwood line inlay. ...

Edward William Godwin made by William Watt, with applied enamel label. An Important Anglo-Japanese ebonised display cabinet with an upper and...

Charles Bevan for Gillows & Co. An Aesthetic Movement oak Canterbury, music or side cabinet with four carved panels, the upper pair depicting birds at dinner time, beaks full. The bo...

G M Ellwood for J S Henry. A fine exhibition quality 'New Art' Arts and Crafts display cabinet. A well executed design with such fine a...

George Montague Ellwood (1875-1955) for J.S. Henry (attributed,) a mahogany and inlaid glazed display cabinet, stamped '301' over '4'.

An Arts and Crafts oak and chequer inlaid wall cabinet, possibly by Harris Lebus, with shelves and a door. Depth of shelves 6 1/4". Upper Shelf Hei...

Louis Majorelle (1859-1926), an Art Nouveau carved walnut, inlaid and glazed salon cabinet, with stylised floral carved details to the crown with a centr...

Rosewood China Cabinet, circa 1878, designed by Edward William Godwin (1833-1886) for Collinson & Lock, London. From the Collection of Eaton Hall, Cheshire, England. The Eaton Hall cabinet, circa 1878, in rosewood, the scroll-carved broken arched Queen Anne pediment above a dentil and moulded frieze, with a pair of astragal glazed doors flanked by shelves beneath fielded panels, above a central drawer and semi-circular cupboards, the moulded top above a pair of panelled doors with an open panelled section beneath, on shaped splayed feet, japanesque engraved brass handles, hinges and lockplates, stamped 'Collinson and Lock, London 7480', the handles, hinges and lockplates all stamped 'Elsleys, Gt Portland St, London'. Provenance: Eaton Hall, Cheshire. A previous owner purchased this lot from a sale of the contents at Sweetenhams of Chester, 20th and 21st May 1959, where it states:- '283. Rosewood display cabinet, the upper portion enclosed with astragal glazed doors with side shelves, the lower portion enclosed with two panelled doors. This was the last mention of the Rosewood cabinet before it was sold. This piece has many features, which firmly show Godwin's hand at work, i.e. Queen Anne broken pediment, (Soros, Susan Weber 'The Secular Furniture of E.W. Godwin', Butterfly cabinet, p. 227; and a Queen Anne cabinet p. 269 and an 'over door', p. 251), the dentil moulding to the top is identical to the Butterfly cabinet, the astragal glazed doors and panelled lower doors identical to a design for a table for Grey Towers (Susan Soros, 'Secular Furniture', p. 157 and similar detail to the doors on two cabinets on pp. 222-223). The semi-circular central side doors and semi-circular open shelves above are identical to a dressing table and a sketch for a dresser (Susan Soros, 'Secular Furniture', p. 211), a design for a mantelpiece (Susan Soros, 'Secular Furniture', p. 248) and a design for a buffet (Susan Soros, 'Secular Furniture', p. 265). The integrated design of solids and voids in many of his cabinet designs and the framed back panels to each individual shelf and framed panels to each side is typical of his work. The splayed front feet are identical to the Four Seasons cabinet (Susan Soros, 'Secular Furniture', p. 217). The elongated handles with japanesque engraved backplates simulate Japanese woven rush work (Susan Soros, 'E.W. Godwin Aesthetic Movement, Architect and Designer', p. 303, fig. 11-10 and Susan Soros, 'Secular Furniture', p. 268) a detail he used in many combinations. 'Sheraton and Queen Anne in Japan at Eaton Hall' only Godwin could have designed this exceptional work of art. Possibly part of a larger commission, the Eaton Hall archivist also found a Collinson and Lock billiard table in the inventory at Eaton Hall. Godwin is known to have designed billiard tables for Collinson and Lock, a design appears in his sketchbook on the 6th of October 1873, carved in the Jacobean style with circular decorations of white storks in relief interspersed with square panels. A corresponding entry on the 7th of October 1873 it shows that he designed it for the McLaren house, a large commission that Godwin did at Adison Rd, Kensington. The third Marquis of Westminster, who later became the 2nd Duke of Westminster, commissioned Sir Alfred Waterhouse to substantially remodel and rebuild Eaton Hall. The work began in 1869 and reached its completion in 1883. The large drawing room can be seen in a photograph taken, circa 1887, pl. 199 in Cooper, Jeremy. Victorian and Edwardian Furniture and Interiors, in which Cooper mentions that the Duke had spent 600,000 pounds on the decoration alone and that Heaton, Butler and Bayne carried out the work. In 1885, an inventory of the contents of Eaton Hall was carried out, and it is precisely at this point in time that the cabinet receives its first mention. Having occupied a place in the Ormand Sitting Room, 72 on the ground floor of the North Wing of the Waterhouse Hall, the cabinet was described as, 'A Rosewood china cabinet with cupboards beneath and glass fronts at the top, 50ins'. The cabinet is then mentioned again in a 1917 inventory in the Angel Bedroom. The cabinet made its next appearance in 1931 in the 'Declaration of Trusts', which was a valuation of the contents of Eaton Hall, appearing as T86/27 in the Stewards Offices with a similar description, and then finally in the 1959 sale catalogue mentioned above. Sotheby's and various other local auctioneers held many sales of the various contents of Eaton Hall from 1955 through to 1961 until the Hall was demolished in 1961. This description was compiled with the generous help and assistance of the Grosvenor Estate's Archive Department, Eaton Hall, Cheshire. Collinson and Lock of London...

E W Godwin, Attr An Anglo-Japanese oak wall cabinet with embossed leather faces to the door panels, probably made by William Watt.

An arts and crafts carved oak wall cabinet.

William James Neatby Attri. An English Art Nouveau music cabinet, with parquetry panels depicting Art Nouveau women and men playing musical instrumen...