DESIGNED BY A.W.N. PUGIN, MADE BY THE FIRM OF CRACE (1788-1899)

Details

A GOTHIC REVIVAL OAK WRITING TABLE
Designed by A.W.N. Pugin, made by the firm of Crace (1788-1899)
The rectangular top with a tooled leather writing surface and moulded edge, the two frieze drawers with brass drop handles on foliate carved supports joined by a trefoil and rosette carved stretcher terminating in rosette carved legs and castors; 77cm high, 152cm wide, 80cm deep

Provenance

H. Blairman and Son's, 119 Mount Street London
Viscount Gough, Lough Cutra Castle, Gort, Co Galway, circa 1854; thence by descent

Special notice

A 10% Goods and Services tax (G.S.T) will be charged on the Buyer's Premium in all lots in this sale

Lot Essay

This table is very similar to a series of tables made by the Pugin/Crace partnership from the late 1840's. There were two library tables, for example, shown in the Mediaeval Court at the Great Exhibition, 1851 (See The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue of the Industry of All Nations, London1951, plate xxiv).

Two Similar tables supplied by Crace are shown at Eastnor Castle circa 1851 in The Treasure Houses of Britian (Gervase Jackson-Stops ed.) and at Abney Hall, circa 1853 in Victorian Furniture by R.W. Symonds and B.B. Whineray.

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