AFTER A DESIGN BY A.W.N. PUGIN, MID-19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF VICTORIAN OAK STOOLS
After a design by A.W.N. Pugin, mid-19th century
Each with a crimson cut-velvet brass-nailed seat, above a flower-head roundel frieze and oak leaf apron, on chamfered X-shaped legs joined by a spirally-turned stretcher and Tudor rose bosses
19 in. (48 cm.) high; 18 in. (46 cm.) wide; 17¼ in. (44 cm.) deep (2)

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Lot Essay

These rose-flowered 'tabouret' stools, of chamfer-edged oak and mediaeval X-shaped form, are designed in the antiquarian 'New Palace of Westminster' style invented by the architect A.W.N. Pugin (d.1852). Pugin's book Gothic Furniture in the Style of the 15th Century, 1835, popularised the mediaeval fashion and firms such as John C. Crace & Son of Wigmore Street also produced Gothic furniture in large quantities. In 1849 Pugin sent Crace a 'plain' chair pattern, with related 'chamfered' frame together with a letter stressing 'it is very important to have some simple chairs for the domestic market' (M. Aldrich et al., A.W.N. Pugin, London, 1995, no. 108).

A similar pair of stools was sold, Christie's, London, 23 November 2006, lot 184.

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