PETER WAALS (DUTCH 1870-1937)
WRITING CABINET, 1931
£10,710
Auction: 19 March 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
English walnut and burr walnut, the interior chequer inlaid in holly and ebony, the fall with leather writing surface
Dimensions
129.5cm high, 99cm wide, 40cm deep (51in high, 39in wide, 15 ¾in deep)
Provenance
Arthur Mitchell, commissioned for his daughter Mrs R. Cole
thence by descent
Mallams, Oxford, 7th December 2017, lot 204
with Oscar Graf, Paris
Footnote
Reference to this cabinet can be found in the Waals ledger held at Gloucester Record Office which covers the years 1919-36. The entry refers to ‘Furniture for Mrs. R. Cole’, purchased by Arthur Mitchell and dated November 1931.
Arthur Mitchell, whose father Henry founded the Smethwick brewery that would become Mitchells & Butlers, was a great patron of Cotswold School craftsmen.