Important Furniture & Decorative Arts Page 2

IP 24
A rare & important Arts & Crafts oak dining table by Earnest Gimson with Hayrake detailed stretcher. Circa 1900
Length 6'6", Width 41 1/2", height is just under 29".
£POA.
Click on pictures for larger version


IP 25
A rare & important pair of hand formed steel candlesticks designed by Earnest Gimson & made by Alfred Bucknell. The last 3 images are his original signed drawings for them which are held at The Cheltenham Museum Collections.
Height 11 1/2", Width 6".
£POA.
Click on pictures for larger version


IP 26
'The Valkyrie' An amazing upright oak piano designed by Leonard F Wyburd for Liberty & Co, & made by J & J Hopkinson, inlaid with Pewter & Ebony stylised floral details with Celtic designs, & outstanding iron strap hinges, iron foot caps & the original Celtic interlaced candle sconces, which are a work of art on their own. I now have this incredible piano in stock, it is probably the only one to come onto the market in the last thirty years still retaining it's original candle sconces & in wonderful condition. Images coming soon. This is an extremely rare piano indeed, a museum quality work, I know of only one other Valkyrie piano to come onto the market.
Height 50", Width 65, Depth 28, the side flaps are 11" each side making an overall width of 87". Circa 1902.
£POA.
Click on pictures for larger version


IP 27
Designed by George Montague Ellwood (1875-1955) & made by J S Henry (John Sollie Henry, founded c1880) of Old Street, London. A pair of exceptional Arts & Crafts oak side chairs designed by George Montague Ellwood & made by J S Henry, inlaid with circular copper line details, centred by a pewter heart enclosed within a copper. The single central back splat united by two lower cross stretchers which cleverly emulate the lower twin side stretchers & single side uprights which are united by a higher single cross stretcher. A single variation to this chair sold at Sotheby's London on 22 nd Feb 2006, Lot 23, & made £5040 with the buyer's premium that chair is identical in form except that it has only one side stretcher, as oppose to the twin side stretchers on this pair which sit better with the overall design, also the inlays to this pair are purer & a more unified design than the one which sold at Sotheby's in 2006.
Another example of the chair is in the collection of the Wolfsonian Museum, Florida.
Circa 1900.
£POA.
Click on pictures for larger version


IP 28
A fine Exhibition quality 'New Art' display cabinet designed by George Montague Ellwood & made by J S Henry.
George Montague Ellwood (1875-1955) Artist, Designer & Interior Decorator was born in 1875 & educated at Holloway Art School & later studied in Paris, Berlin, Dresden & Vienna & at Camden School of Art from 1916 to 1924. In 1897 he won the gold medal for his furniture designs at the National Competition, South Kensington. He was one of the founding members of the 'Guild of Art Craftsmen', Ellwood's designs for J S Henry were exhibited at the 1900 Paris Exhibition & won a silver medal, one of two the firm were awarded. He exhibited at a number of venues between 1899 & 1915, including four times at the Royal Academy.
A well excecuted design with such fine attension to detail, twin triangular display cabinets to the upper & lower sections the upper with lead & glass windows depicting Ellwood's particular stylised touch to the classic Glasgow rose, each with brass squares to the centre's, all in clear glass enclosing beautifully lined display areas. To the upper centre is a precisely carved, elongated stylised flower, which is Art Nouveau in it's form & where of his best detailing tended to flow.
The Serpentine shape evolvoling from a pair of curving drawers which are beautifully inlaid with stylised flowing details to each side of the brass toggle drop handles with a narrow full length brass back plates.
The triangular design is softened by it's central curves & continues below with two larger triangular display cases with shelves. The base section has a shaped apron pierced with four circles, joining five flat facing legs, united by four lower stretchers, all with three uniting uprights, each end has a single shaped un-pierced apron & lower stretchers.
Height 77" Width 55 1/2", Depth 16 3/4". Circa 1900.
£POA.
Click on pictures for larger version





Ellwood also worked for Bath Cabinetmakers & the Bristol based firm of Trapnell & Gane. He later traded as Ellwood & Sledmere (late with J.S. Henry Ltd) at 53 Mortimer Street, London. & designed posters for the London Underground Group between 1912 & 1914 now displayed at The Transport Museum. He became editor of Drawing & Design Journal & in later years continuing his life's work he wrote several knowledgeable books on drawing & design & also advertising.
The last two images are from Jeremy Coopers, Victorian & Edwardian Furniture & Interiors, page 303.


IP 29
A rare Rosewood & Mahogany Arts & Crafts sidetable by M H Ballie Scott with 'V' shaped side stretchers united to the top wit four sets of three turned uprights, on turned feet.
Depth 5', Width 36". Circa 1900.
£POA.
Click on pictures for larger version


IP 30
WMF, an Art Nouveau electro-plated table service for twenty four in an oak cabinet on stand, pattern 37, circa 1904-14, comprising: Twenty four table knives Twenty four table forks Twenty four table spoons Twenty four dessert knives Twenty four dessert forks Twenty four dessert spoons Twenty four fish knives Twenty four fish forks Two pairs of fish servers Two fish serving spoons Four butter knives Eighteen knife rests Twenty four tea spoons Two sugar sifting spoons Twenty four small fruit spoons Twenty four smaller spoons Eighteen individual asparagus tongs Six salt cellars with liners Six salt spoons. Two soup ladles Two gravy ladles Two carving knives and forks Two pairs of salad serving spoons, (334) the cabinet with silvered metal pierced mounts, a fitted interior and drawers, on a single-drawer stand, 155cm high overall, 98cm wide, 44cm deep. See Grotkamp-Schepers, Barbara and Sanger, Reinhard W. 'Art Nouveau Knives, Forks and Spoons' Stuttgart 20001, p. 87, item 82 for this pattern. See also Sotheby's 'Fine Decorative Arts from 1870', 5th October 2004, Lot 67, hammer price ú13,200 for a fitted canteen box for twelve place settings.
£POA.
Click on pictures for larger version


IP 31
Albert Meyer for WMF, an Art Nouveau electro-plated table service for twelve settings by WMF, pattern 44, designed circa 1905, comprising: Twelve table knives Twelve table forks Twelve table spoons Twelve dessert knives Twelve dessert forks Twelve dessert spoons Twelve tea spoons Ten knife rests A carving knife and fork A soup ladle A dessert serving spoon A salad serving spoon. A salad serving spoon with forked end in an oak and brass mounted dome-top cabinet, on a two-drawer stand, 146cm high overall, 64cm wide, 38cm deep. See Grotkamp-Schepers, Barbara and Sanger, Reinhard W. 'Art Nouveau Knives, Forks and Spoons' Stuttgart 20001, p. 68, item 47 for this pattern. For the stand see Sotheby's 5th October 04, Lot 67. Mayer was a sculptor and designer and director of the WMF Art Studio from 1894 to 1914.
£POA.
Click on pictures for larger version


IP 32
George Faulkner Armitage (1849-1937), a carved rosewood exhibition quality sideboard, probably made by Collinson & Lock, the moulded cornice with a carved half sunflower frieze, a frieze of overlapping quarter sunflowers, a shelf and mirrors, the base with carved drawers, an open base and panelled sides with full sunflower stiles, on block feet.
Armitage was commissioned by The Fine Art Society to decorate and design furniture for their showrooms in about 1887. His father William was a cotton manufacturer in Manchester from Altrincham. Armitage became a prolific architect and furniture designer famous in his day. He lived and ran his business from Stamford House, a former ale house. He designed & furnished wealthy properties in London and had his own furniture-making company. He also became a magistrate and was mayor of Altrincham during the whole of the 1914-18 war.
219cm 7'2" high, 198.5cm 6'6" wide, 63cm 25" deep
£6000.
Click on pictures for larger version


IP 33
An important newspaper & magazine basket on stand designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, with pie crust moulding to the top edges & double skined cane work to the angled sides the basket held in place by large 1" circular dowls making it simple to lift from the base but retains it perfectly in place, with a staggered bead & line moulded detail to the base of the basket & sitting on 4 square tapering legs with a wonderful 45 degree half Ogee moulding to each corner of the 4 legs which are united by a classic H stretcher & on original brass castors.
An almost identical version is shown in Truth Beauty & Design by Adrian J Tilbrook & Fischer Fine Art 1986, page 69, last 2 images.
The authors quote Lutyens’s daughter, Mary, who stated that this piece was originally designed for his own home.
Height 29 1/2", Width 31 1/2", Depth 23 1/2". Circa 1900.
£POA.
Click on pictures for larger version

IP 34
WAS Benson. An outstanding & extremely rare Arts & Crafts copper & brass chandelier with 6 James Powell of Whitefriars Vaseline shades. Absolutely stunning these images do not do it justice, an exceptional piece.
Height of chandelier from ceiling without chain 4', original chain is 36" long so one can hang it from 4' to anything between a 7'drop depending on chain, Width shade to shade 25". Circa 1900.
£POA.

Click on pictures for larger version


IP 35
Robert 'Mouseman' Thompson (1876-1955), a rare oak longcase clock, of exceptional quality with carved florets to the front & his famous little mouse climbing up the side :-
HICKORY DICKORY DOCK, THE MOUSE RAN UP THE CLOCK.
The German movement with a 10 inch brass square dial and a silvered Roman numeral chapter ring, with three chiming rods inside, these movements were made by E.Schmeckenbecher an old German clock maker.
See Tennants' sale 19th November 2003 for an oak chiming longcase clock. That clock was made in the Thompson workshops in the 1970s.
Circa late 1960's,70's.
Height 76" 194cm, Width 18", Depth 13".
£POA.
Mouseman Long Case clocks were made in very small numbers usually by commission only & I have only ever managed to find five including this one that have come onto the market. They began producing them in the late 1960's & through the 1970's & were made by Len Haw & Malcom Pipe & they sold for £9000 back then, we believe they stopped producing them in the late 1970's.
Robert Thompson Mouseman was born in 1876 & took over the family carpentry business in 1895 when his father died. He started signing his furniture with a mouse in 1923 & he died in 1955.
Click on pictures for larger version


IP 36
Dr Christopher Dresser (attributed), an ebonised music cabinet, with six painted panels attributed to Moyr Smith, the upper pair in the shape of crosses with painted Japanese floral details, the central pair depicting a violinist and a harpist sitting on a Greek stylised chair, the lower pair square shaped with applied circular cross and Japanese flower, the doors with incised geometric latch style handles enclosing ten drop-front drawers, compartments to the base. See Lyons, Harry ‘Christopher Dresser: The Peoples Designer 1834-1904’, p. 144, plate 260.
Possibly made by Chubb.
Height 46" 120cm, Width 31" 79cm, Depth 19 1/2". Circa 1870's.
£POA.

Click on pictures for larger version

IP 37
A stunning Arts & Crafts stained wood & Gesso cabinet designed by Edwin B. Joliffe which won a competition at the Liverpool School of Art in 1899/1900 with superb Glasgow stylised floral Gesso & Burlap details, the motto reads:- 'SAFE BIND SAFE FIND', Stunning unique piece of exhibition quality. This actual piece is illustrated in the Studio Year book volume 19 page 133 image attached & an image of a wall cabinet which is also by Joliffe.
Measurements Height 29', Width 47 1/2", Depth 20 1/2". Circa 1899/1900.
£SOLD.
Click on pictures for larger version


IP 38
Dr C Dresser. An important cast iron stickstand designed by Dresser & made by Coalbrookdale. Illustrated in Victorian & Edwardian Interiors & Furniture by Jeremy Cooper Page 145 Plate 357 last 3 images, & Christopher Dresser by Stuart Durant page 100.
Height 32", Width 20", Depth 7". Circa 1870's.
£POA.
Click on pictures for larger version

IP 39
A set of five fantastic cast iron radiator covers made by The Liverpool & Macclesfield Cast Iron Co in the 1860's. These covers were originally made for The Royal Liverpool School of Music. One cover with a marble top (shown but the marble has been sold with another 1) has been fully restored, which consisted of shot blasting, priming & painting, the other 4 have been stripped & are ready to be painted to one's personal taste.
Measurements without marble top Height 35", Depth 15 1/2", Width 64".
£POA.
There is an identical radiator cover in Sudley House Museum in Liverpool.
Click on pictures for larger version

IP 40
Bruce Talbert (1838-1881), a fine oak and glazed standing corner cabinet, probably by Gillow & Co., 181cm high, 73cm wide, 55cm deep. The castellated cornice detail above the bevel glazed door is identical to the moulding on his famous 'Pet' sideboard exhibited at the 1872 London International Exhibition and also the 'Pericles' sideboard exhibited at the 1867 Paris Exhibition where it was a Grand Prix winner.
£SOLD.
Click on pictures for larger version


IP 41
Bruce Talbert (1838-1881) for Gillow & Co., an important Aesthetic Movement ebonised desk, with gilt highlights, a brass gallery, a gallery, a mirror, a leather inset top, two drawers, turned and fluted supports and a stretcher with a padded centre, stamped mark,
94cm high, 123cm wide, 60cm deep.
£5000.
Click on pictures for larger version


IP 43
A very rare & important two drawer Library table made by Marsh Jones & Cribb, designed by Charles Bevan, possibly designed for Titus Salt Juniors marital home at Basildon near Saltaire.
Height 31", Width 2'1", Length 6'1". Circa late 1860's.
£POA.
Click on pictures for larger version

IP 44
Bruce Talbert (1838-1881) for Gillow & co., a rare and imprtant plain walnut, amboyna, ebonised and gilt bedroom suite, each with differing carved rosettes, comprising: a triple mirror door wardrobe, 208cm high, 208cm wide, 58cm deep; a pair of bedside lockers, 85cm high, 38cm wide; and a pair of single bedsteads, 124cm wide Provenance: The famous Argentinian writer and suffragette Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979), bought from her estate and shipped back from Argentina. Bruce James Talbert originally trained as a carver then an architect, he became an influential and very successful furniture designer. He served an apprenticeship in Dundee and had his own carving business for two years where he learnt the skills to apply carved details to furniture and then joined the architectural offices of Charles Edward. In 1856 he moved to Glasgow, and worked for the architects W. N. Tait and Campbell Douglas. He moved to Manchester in the early 1860s, where he gained employment with the cabinetmakers Doveston, Bird and Hull, which was short lived, then moving to to Coventry gaining work with Skidmore's Art Manufactures. In 1863 he won the competition to design the masthead for 'The Building News' and in the mid 1860s moved to London, where he started designing furniture for Holland and Sons. His 'Pericles' Gothic sideboard was displayed on their stand at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867 where it was Grand Prix winner. It was at this point that his most prolific period began and also when he started designing furniture for Gillows of Lancaster from 1868. in the same year he published his very influential first book 'Gothic Forms Applied to Furniture, Metal Work and Decoration for Domestic Purposes', which he dedicated to George Edmund Street. This was followed in 1876 by 'Examples of Ancient and Modern Furniture, Metalwork, Tapestries and Modern Furniture' and in 1881 by 'Fashionable Furniture'. Other companies he designed for were Marsh, Jones and Cribb, Jackson and Graham and, for a short time, was a partner with Daniel Cottier. He designed textiles for Templeton's, Warner's, Cowlishaw and Barbour and Miller; carpet designs for Templeton's and Brinton & Co.; and his wallpaper designs were printed by Jeffrey and Co. He also designed church metalwork and furniture for Cox and Sons, cast iron for the Colebrookdale Co., Nichol and Co., Barbone and Miller and Cowlishaw. In 1869 Talbert returned to London working as prolific and successful freelance commercial designer and decorator.
£8750.
Click on pictures for larger version


IP 45
A matching dining table to the above Library table also made by Marsh Jones & Cribb & designed by Charles Bevan, possibly designed for Titus Salt Juniors marital home at Basildon near Saltaire.
Width 4'1" Length 6'1", Length just along the straight side before the D ends 4' 6". Circa late 1860's.
£POA.
Click on pictures for larger version

IP 46
A stunning oak Arts & Crafts full size snooker table by Riley, this table has an original advert from 1900 & is still used as the frontice page on the Riley website.
Circa 1900.
£POA.
Click on pictures for larger version

IP 47
A stunning Glasgow School cabinet designed by George Logan & made by Wylie & Lochhead. A bedroom suite by George Logan which he designed for the Wylie & Lochhead Pavilion Exhibition of 1901 also has Harebells & tiny little carved butterflies which are almost identical, it is quite likely that this cabinet was exhibited at that exhibition.
The cabinet has a superb pierced & carved stylised butterfly to the centre back & display area below, flanked by stylised floral carved details to the upper frontal ends & 3 fantastic lead glass panels almost certainly made by Macullocks who made glass for Wylie & Lochhead depicting 3 pure white plump Doves in flight with Harebells growing from the lower section panels in sliding doors with adjustable shelves behind.
Circa 1901.
£POA.
Click on pictures for larger version

IP 49
TALWIN MORRIS cast iron stickstand.
(The first three pictures to the right are from the Studio)
Talwin Morris has in the past been counted as the fitth member of the Glasgow Four, because of his maturity & long standing friendship with ' The Spook School '- (Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Herbert Macnair, & Margaret & Francis Macdonald). He was first to translate their ideas into commercial design & the first collector of items that they designed & produced. He came to Glasgow in 1893, a crucial time in the development of the Glasgow Style, to take up his post as director of Blackie's publishing house.
He studied as an Architect & designed many items of jewellery, hand beaten metalwork & even pieces of furniture, which are very rare, but he is most famous for his incredible Glasgow Style designs of metalwork & for Blackie book covers whom Mackintosh also designed for, but probably most important was that, 'he secured' for Macintosh the commission for the Blackie's new home in Helensborough, The Hill House..
There are only two known example's of a cast iron stick stand designed by Talwin Morris the other design has through cut-outs to the heart centre's & slits to the sides.
£SOLD.
Click on pictures for larger version



IP 50
£SOLD. TALWIN MORRIS!
.............In Mr Morris's bookcase, his panels are somewhat cramped, one does feel that his bookcase was designed first, then the panels were designed to fit into the space where they are located. The panel in the above cupboard has actually a little more freedom, & more balanced, because it is slightly larger in scale. With the evidence to the right, one would also feel that the above cupboard & panel were designed as a whole. Quite likely to have been designed before the bookcase or maybe even a collaboration between CR Mackintosh & Talwin Morris.
Talwin Morris has in the past been counted as the 5th member of the Glasgow Four, because of his maturity & long standing friendship with ' The Spook School '- (Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Herbert Macnair, & Margaret & Francis Macdonald). He was first to translate their ideas into commercial design & the first collector of items that they designed & produced. He came to Glasgow in 1893, a crucial time in the development of the Glasgow Style, to take up his post as director of Blackie's publishing house. The last picture shows that this copper panel was made for this cabinet, this cabinet is of shoddy late Victorian construction in deal, made to be painted & made in a way close in line to how early Mackintosh furniture was made.
£SOLD.
Click on pictures for larger version

IP SOLD
An extremely rare original 'Roxborough' design bookcase plus two books with bindings by Talwin Morris: 'Scenes of Clerical Life' and 'The Mill On The Floss' by George Eliot (Publisher: Gresham Publishing Co., London, n.d. but c.1900). An original arts and crafts style bookcase specially designed by Talwin Morris to house the 21 volumes of his Roxborough design bindings. Morris is renown for his close association with the work of The Glasgow School of Art and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The bookcase is decorated with four identical metal plates also in the Roxborough design. Includes the two titles (only) by George Eliot quarter-bound in leather in the Roxborough design. Bookcase and books in very good condition, minor scratches and wear only.
Bookcase Height 27", Width 20", Depth 7".
£SOLD.
Click on pictures for larger version



IP SOLD
Lambs Of Manchester. A near pair of superior quality Artistic bedside cabinets from The Aesthetic Movement.
Circa 1880.
£SOLD.
Click on pictures for larger version










Return to Current Stock
Return to Index
Puritan Values Ltd, The Dome, St Edmunds Rd, Southwold, Suffolk, IP18 6BZ Tel: Tony 07966 371676 OR Stan 07759 616400 Credit Card Facilities and Interest Free Credit now available E-Mail:sales@puritanvalues.com