CHARLES LOCKE EASTLAKE (1836-1906)
AESTHETIC MOVEMENT CHEST OF DRAWERS, CIRCA 1870
£3,000
Hints on Household Taste : Paul Reeves
Auction: 28 June 2022 from 11:00 BST
Description
oak, with brass handles
Dimensions
106.7cm wide, 99.5cm high, 60.3cm deep
Footnote
Literature: Eastlake, Charles L. Hints on Household Taste, Longmans, Green & Co., 1878, p 215 where a similar chest is illustrated.
Cooper, Jeremy Victorian & Edwardian Furniture & Interiors, Thames & Hudson 1998, pp.108-9, pl. 240
Note: Eastlake was not a commercial designer and earned his living as Keeper of the National Gallery. Most of his designs were variants based on his published designs, as in the present example.