LEONARD WYBURD (1865-1958) (ATTRIBUTED DESIGNER) FOR LIBERTY & CO., LONDON
SET OF EIGHT 'ARTHURIAN' DINING CHAIRS, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
£1,890
Auction: 19 April 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
oak, with later upholstery
Dimensions
73cm wide, 90cm high, 49cm seat depth
Provenance
Provenance: Jimmy Page
Paul Reeves: The Best of British Design from the 19th & 20th Centuries, Sotheby's, 20th March 2008, lot 79
Private collection
Footnote
Literature: Bennett, D. Liberty's Furniture, Woodbridge 2012, p.48
Note: Leonard Wyburd, principal designer for Liberty & Co. from 1883, was inspired by ‘themes of chivalry and visions of a golden past’ which were so prevalent in 19th-century art and design. His Handbook of Sketches of 1885 made references to knights and armour, and he was still using this theme to great effect in his watercolour studies at the Royal Academy in 1904.