Lot 260

AMBROSE HEAL FOR HEAL & SON
BOOKCASE CABINET

Auction: 14 November 2007 at 11:00 GMT
£5,280
Description
walnut with rosewood banding, the double-domed top with astragal glazed doors enclosing adjustable shelves, above a pair of frieze drawers with ivorine pull handles and with a pair of cupboard doors below, the whole raised on convex-moulded trestle feet, bears ivorine makers label and paper label inscribed 'Signed Edition Series/ designed by/ Ambrose Heal/ made by Heal & Son/ 1929'
Dimensions
100cm wide, 200cm high, 44cm deep
Footnote
Literature; Jeremy Cooper, 'Victorian and Edwardian Furniture & Interiors', pub. London 1987, illus. p. 224, showing an illustration of this lot in a drawing room setting from a Heals catalogue of 1915
