ATTRIBUTED TO JAMES SHOOLBRED & CO

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A LATE VICTORIAN MAHOGANY AND BRASS MOUNTED HALL STAND
Attributed to James Shoolbred & Co
The shaped gallery back with frieze drawer and roundel pierced side supports, the sides with quadrant brass umbrella rails and shaped metal trays on a moulded base, the drawer stamped twice with the registration stamp, bearing inside the drawer an embossed brass oval plate 'BLYTHE & SONS COMPLETE HOUSE FURNISHERS 4-7 CHISWELL STREET LONDON'
40¼in. (102cm.) high, 39½in. (100.5cm.) wide, 13in. (33.5cm.) deep

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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

With similarities to a hall stand sold in our King Street salerooms 14th September 2000, lot 7. James Shoolbred & Company are recorded at the Victoria & Albert Museum as furniture makers. They exhibited a very extensive selection of items in the 1878 Paris Universal Exhibition. Much of the furniture they designed was influenced by the asethetic taste popularised by the architect E.W. Godwin, Shoolbred & Company became one of the first large departmental stores in London. They expanded from a small drapery business and started to manufacture high quality furniture circa. 1870 for which they were given a Royal warrant by the mid 1880s.
A similar hall stand was sold anonoymously in these rooms, 9th March 2000, lot 1.

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