BRUCE TALBERT (1838-1881) FOR GILLOW & CO.
PAIR OF DINING CHAIRS, CIRCA 1865
£4,536
Auction: Day One | Lots 1 to 252 | Wednesday 16th April from 10am
Description
oak, inlaid with ebonised wood, close-nailed leather upholstery, decorative brass caps and casters (2)
Dimensions
47cm wide, 89cm high, 53cm deep
Footnote
Literature: Cooper J. Victorian & Edwardian Furniture & Interiors, London 1998, p. 85, pl. 188
This chair closely resembles a design for a Dining Room Chair, in Talbert's seminal pattern book of Reformed Gothic furniture Gothic Forms Applied to Furniture, Metal Work and Decoration for Domestic Purposes, first published in 1867, plate XVIII. Further examples of these chairs can be found in the collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (Accession No. 1999.48); and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (Accession No. W.8-1984).