£10,000
Auction: Design Since 1860
chestnut
Provenance: From The Millinery Works Collection.
Literature: Lethaby, W. R., Powell, Alfred H., Griggs, F.L. Ernest Gimson; his life & work, plate 30
Cheltenham Museum, 1941 222.413
Note: Tables of this design, with chip-carved detail to the table edge and apron, were supplied by Gimson to the agricultural reformer Hugh Fairfax-Cholmeley (1864-1940) at Brandsby Hall, near York. Gimson produced variations of his designs in different woods and qualities of timber, depending on the wishes of his clients and what they could afford. Waals continued the Gimson tradition after his death, making furniture to his designs and acquiring the stock of seasoned timber and equipment from his executors.