Details
A late Victorian Arts and Crafts mahogany, rosewood and marquetry bedroom suite inlaid overall with trailing ribbon-tied bellflowers and rosettes, laurel-leaf swags, pairs of birds and foliage with berries, comprising a wardrobe with breakfront dentil-moulded cornice above dot inlaid and simulated fluted frieze with domed recess below with spindle-turned gallery above a pair of doors flanked by hanging cupboard doors with polygonal bevelled mirrors with two drawers below, on plinth base, all with fielded panels of rosewood and satinwood bands -- 84in. (213cm.) high, 86½in. (220cm.) wide, a bedside cupboard -- 18in. (946cm.) wide, and a hanging corner cupboard with mirrored door and detachable marquetry bracket, possibly part of a larger corner fitting -- 42in. (107cm.) wide, overall.
Spindle-turnings the use of dot inlay and the distinctive fielded panels all have similarities to the documented work of Charles Bevan and Bruce Talbert, although the naturalistic style of marquetry points to another hand. The paired birds are emblematic of love indicating that the suite may originally have been a wedding gift. (3)
Spindle-turnings the use of dot inlay and the distinctive fielded panels all have similarities to the documented work of Charles Bevan and Bruce Talbert, although the naturalistic style of marquetry points to another hand. The paired birds are emblematic of love indicating that the suite may originally have been a wedding gift. (3)