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Exceptional Arts & Crafts Oak Dresser by Sidney Barnsley

$52,075.99
£38,000
€44,333.17
CA$71,331.08
A$79,335.73
CHF 41,426.66
MX$965,431.49
NOK 529,081.60
SEK 496,185.20
DKK 330,875.45
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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. 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.
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 72.5 in (184.15 cm)Width: 84.5 in (214.63 cm)Depth: 28 in (71.12 cm)
  • Materials and Techniques:
  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    1900
  • Condition:
    Wear consistent with age and use.
  • Seller Location:
    London, GB
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU943944409742

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