Lot 543
PAIR OF ANGLO-COLONIAL CARVED HARDWOOD BEDPOSTS
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Fine Furniture and Works of Art
Auction: 25 January 2017 at 11:00 GMT
Description
spiral and pineapple carved with ring turnings (2)
Dimensions
210cm high
Footnote
Provenance: Liberty & Co. London
Note: This table formed part of the collection of Arts and Crafts furniture made in the early 1920s for Liberty & Co.'s magnificent Tudor building in Great Marlborough Street. The building was designed by Edwin Thomas Hall and his son, Edwin Stanley Hall, at the height of the 1920s fashion for the Tudor revival, and constructed from the timbers of two 19th century men-of-war battleships. A collection of furniture was made for the rooms and galleries to display the textiles, clothes and luxury goods for which the shop was so famous. The finishes were either dark fumed, natural, or, as in this example, limed, reflecting the characteristic of the wood panelling in the various showrooms. Lorimer designed these tables in the 16th century manner, with substantial oak planked tops, either octagonal or rectangular, raised on spirally fluted legs with platform stretchers.