Lot 510
PAIR OF VICTORIAN WALNUT FOOT STOOLS
DESIGNED BY THOMAS JECKYLL FOR GILLOWS & CO, CIRCA 1875
Fine & Decorative Furniture and Art
Auction: 30 September 2009 at 12:00 BST
Description
the rectangular pierced back above studded green leather seats, raised on openwork moulded trestle end supports, each stamped Gillow 11439 and 11440, one signed in pencil and dated 1875 (2)
Dimensions
36cm wide, 33cm high, 33cm deep
Footnote
Provenance: Christies South Kensington, Ken Hill, Snettisham, Norfolk, 13th September 1999, Lot 632
Note: These stools formed part of a group of furniture designed by Thomas Jeckyll for the industrialist Edward Green and his wife Mary for their home The Old Hall, Heath, Yorkshire in the 1870s. The furniture was removed to Ken Hill when the Greens moved there in 1890.
The signature of F. Branscombe is thought to be that of the upholsterer and it is also thought that the original leather upholstery was brown.