£22,500
The Minoprio Collection: British Design in the Arts & Crafts Tradition | 669
Auction: 11 January 2022 at 14:00 GMT
oak and walnut, with patinated brass handles probably by Alfred or Norman Bucknell
Provenance:
Herbert and Molly Simon, and by descent
With The Fine Art Society, London
John Minoprio
Literature: Carruthers, A. Edward Barnsley and his Workshop, 1992, p.43, fig. 16 where a similar Cotswold-style dresser of 1924 is illustrated.
Note: Herbert Simon (1898-1974) was a friend to many artists, an industrial archaeologist and rail enthusiast who turned the Kynoch Press, Birmingham into one of Britain’s leading fine printing houses.