£9,375
The Minoprio Collection: British Design in the Arts & Crafts Tradition | 669
Auction: 11 January 2022 at 14:00 GMT
Australian blackbean, with sycamore inlay, with hanging space to interior and mirrored plate to inside door, bears label verso "WARDROBE/ Designed by EDWARD BARNSLEY and made at his Froxfield Petersfield Workshops in 1956 by assistant OSKAR DAWSON for RONALD LAY ESQ who paid £172 for this cabinet in Australian Blackbean. Found for sale in Barnsley's workshop by John Minoprio and bought by him for £150 in August 1968."
Provenance:
Purchased from Edward Barnsley by John Minoprio
Literature: Carruthers, A. Edward Barnsley and his Workshop, 1992, p.157, fig. 75
Note: Brass handles on later Barnsley furniture were made by Biff Barker at Bedales or Frank Jordan, a teacher at Loughborough.