ALFRED WATERHOUSE (1830-1905) (ATTRIBUTED DESIGNER)
WRITING DESK, CIRCA 1870
£2,750
Hints on Household Taste : Paul Reeves
Auction: 28 June 2022 from 11:00 BST
Description
oak, with tooled leather writing surface and brass fittings
Dimensions
122cm wide, 75cm high, 60cm deep
Footnote
Literature: Cooper, J., Victorian & Edwardian Furniture & Interiors, Thames & Hudson, London, 1987, p. 106, pl. 229 where a desk with comparable structural form is illustrated.
Note: Alfred Waterhouse is perhaps best remembered as the architect of the Natural History Museum in London. The furniture he conceived was for his own buildings. He designed all the furniture for the Earl of Selborne’s Blackmoor House in Hampshire and this current desk is similar in form and proportions to one created for the Earl.