Lot 313
BRUCE TALBERT (1838-1881) FOR GILLOW & CO.
PAIR OF DINING CHAIRS, CIRCA 1865
Auction: Day One inc Contents from a London Apartment | Lots 197 to 333 | Wednesday 15th October
Description
oak, inlaid with ebonised wood, close-nailed leather upholstery, decorative brass caps and casters (2)
Dimensions
47cm wide, 89cm high, 50cm deep
Footnote
Literature: Cooper J. Victorian & Edwardian Furniture & Interiors, London 1998, p. 85, pl. 188
These chairs closely resemble designs 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).