IN THE STYLE OF A.W.N. PUGIN, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A VICTORIAN OAK PEDESTAL DESK
IN THE STYLE OF A.W.N. PUGIN, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The moulded rectangular red-leather lined top with a three-quarter gallery above a central drawer carved J.W 1878, flanked by two drawers and with three graduated drawers to each pedestal, each with shaped brass drop-handles and between chamfered pilasters, the locks stamped 'VR' below a crown
36in. (91.5cm.) high, 53½in. (136cm.) wide, 29in. (74cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

This oak desk is in the Victorian 'Gothic' style of the architect A.W.N. Pugin (d.1852) adopted in 1844 for the furnishing of Charles barry's New Palace of Westminster. The handles are similar in design to the celebrated Birmingham 'Medieval Metalworker' John Hardman (d.1867), whose metal manufactory in Birmingham, Hardman & Co., had been established shortly after his 1837 meeting with Pugin.

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