Lot 245
AMBROSE HEAL (1872-1959) FOR HEAL & SON, LONDON
ARTS & CRAFTS ‘MANSFIELD’ PRESS, CIRCA 1899
Auction: 12 October 2022 at 11:00 BST
£5,796
Description
no. ‘235’, possibly made by the Guild of Handicraft, oak, with copper fittings
Dimensions
108cm wide, 234cm high, 55.5cm deep
Footnote
Literature: Heal, Oliver S. Sir Ambrose Heal and the Heal Cabinet Factory 1897-1939, Unicorn 2014, cover illustration, also p.157 where a similar example with iron fittings is illustrated.
Note: Ambrose Heal turned to C.R. Ashbee and the Guild of Handicraft workshops in Essex Road, Mile End to produce much of his earliest bedroom furniture output. The Guild produced eleven of these ‘Gentleman’s Wardrobes’ before the production moved to their own workshops circa 1899.