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AEC 4 - A superb Aesthetic Movement Jas Shoolbred Hall chair with half moons to each upright a turned gallery to the top & a wonderful Mintons tile to the back on turned legs. The chair has a good design & a nice play between Walnut & Ebonising. Circa 1880. £POA.
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AEC 5 - A stunning Anglo-Japanese armchair. Circa 1880. Under research.
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AEC 6 - A top quality Aesthetic Movement 9 piece Walnut salon suite made by C.R.Light (images attached from the Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture Design book published by The Antique Collectors club. Although there is a slight difference on the settee the chairs are an identicle match). The whole suite with amboyna panels & stylised floral inscribed details & gilt highlights, a rare documented suite to find in this day & age with wonderful sculptured settee & armchairs. Circa 1881. £POA.
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AEc 7 - A wonderful Chaise Lounge of superior design & quality made by Collinson & Lock with a strong architectural style with triangular 'A' frame to the left end & incised zig-zag & dot details reminiscent of Dr Christopher Dresser & ebonised tramlines with a lower turned gallery & turned feet. The semi upholstered back with open turned gallery an almost identicle chaise is illustrated in the Collinson & Lock catalogue which was drawn by Moyer Smith. Circa 1880's. Height 36", Length 68", Depth 22". £POA.
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AEC 8 - A stunning Gothic/Aesthetic swivel desk chair with stylised carved floral details throughout & reupholstered in a quality leather. Circa 1880. £POA.
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AEC 10 - A superb Gothic/Aesthetic chair in the manner of Christopher Dresser made by Ogdens of Manchester with carved & incised detail throughout tremendous carved floral detail to the back with Gilt decoration & Amboyna to the back supports, refined turned & incised front legs straight out of Dresser design book with superb original decorated brass & ceramic castors, the influence of Dresser flowing throughout this design. Circa 1875. It is thought that Dresser probably designed for Ogdens & Lambs of Manchester see Harry Lyons Exhibition book 'People's Designer 1834 - 1904'. £POA.
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AEC 11 - A superb design & extremely rare ebonised & Gilt upholstered chair by Richard Charles. The last 4 images are before it was upholstered. Circa 1866. £POA. Illustrated in The Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture Design page 170. The illustration shows the same chair with or without arms & without a turned top.
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AES 12 - Coalbrookedale, The Lily Pad design. A pair of stunning cast iron benches with stylised Lilies & acanthus leaf detailing throughout on angular legs with smaller lillies to their centres. With a kite Mark (dates the design). Signed C.B.Dale.Co. (for Coalbrookedale) No 217569 (Registered Design Number). No 47 (Inhouse Design Number). The last 4 images showing them before they were bead blasted & painted black. Circa 1880. £POA.
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AEC 13 - THE SUSSEX RUSH-SEATED CHAIR Of all the specific minor improvements in common household objects due to Morris, the rush-bottomed Sussex chair perhaps takes the first place. It was not his own invention, but was copied with trifling improvements from an old chair of village manufacture in Sussex. With or without modification it has been taken up by all the modern manufacturer's and is in almost UNIVERSAL use. But the Morris pattern of the later type (there were two) still EXCELS all others in simplicity and elegance of proportion. "Life of William Morris" Prof.J.W.Macktail. An appendage to an advertisement post-1899. These commercial Hi-bred's, were adapted & re-invented, because most of the better quality items were only available for the up & coming then firmly established, middle classes. It was here that Morris tried & succeeded in selling a quality item to the masses & not just the affluent High Society & Wealthy Patrons, who were in the end the only people who could afford the incredulous skill of Morris, his enormous energy & equally skilled friends & collaborators. There was then, much more Superior quality in contemporary design (now Period Design) & much more choice, but only for the affluent middle classes & this was because the Industrial Revolution was expanding at an enormous rate, bringing with it wealth to the middle classes. How free Morris was 'an amazingly imaginative child', who followed a dream, with his circle of close friends & admirers which then became a living dream, created in their own world inspired from Medievalism & from King Arthur's time. He was the voice of social revolution on a crusade for Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. He achieved unsurpassable heights passionately, beautifully, romantically & poetically, harmoniously, functionally, always with superior quality, with nature & with the most vivid colour's often invented by himself. Tony Geering. AE 14 - Seven Morris & Co Sussex armchairs. Some with original rush seats, all have original finish. DID U KNOW.. that Ford Maddox Brown persuaded the firm to sell them & Dante Gabriel Rossetti designed the lyre or fiddle back version aptly named "The Rossetti Chair" & when they have to be re-rushed, the arms & the two stretchers just below it have to be removed from the upper back leg, once the rusher has re-laid the rush, only then can they be inserted & glued back together, believe me there is an art to get them back into place because the tolerance's are so close, which is why they are a very strong armchair indeed & also why so many have survived. Circa 1865 & into the 20th Century. £850 each. |
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AEC 14 - A set of 5 Anglo-Aesthetic chairs attributed to Bately consisting of 1 armchair & 4 singles (only 1 of each shown) Circa 1880's. £950 the set.
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AEC 15 - Anglo Japanese hall chair in the manner of Bruce Talbert with carved sunflower to the back panel. Circa 1880. £795.
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AEC 16 - Excellent Quality Aesthetic Movement armchair with fabric (in poor condition) by Bruce Talbert Circa 1880. £695.
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AEC 18- Excellent Quality Anglo Japanese armchair in the manner of E.W.Godwin's Old English or Jacobean armchair, possibly made by Lamb's of Manchester. Circa 1875. £1295
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AEC 19 - Aesthetic Movement Music chair possibly by E.W.Godwin (1833-86) (seat height is 21", 3" higher than normal dining chair height) re-rushed. Circa 1875. £895.
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AEC 20 - A near pair of Anglo Japanese Nursing chair's attributed on stylistic grounds to E.W.Godwin. Circa 1875. Priced at £995 each. I have just purchased an almost Identicle pair of armchairs. Priced at £POA.
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AEC 21 - Aesthetic Movement Nursing chair designed by Bruce Talbert. Made by Gillows of Lancaster. Circa 1875. Priced at £895.
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AEC - A fantastic cast iron garden bench designed by Christopher Dresser & made by Coalbrookedale. £SOLD.
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AEC - A Jacobean rush seated armchair designed by E.W.Godwin (1833-86). Circa 1880. £SOLD
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