Lot 122
HENRY WILLIAM BATLEY (1846-1932) FOR COLLINSON & LOCK, LONDON Y
AESTHETIC MOVEMENT ROSEWOOD SIDE CHAIR, CIRCA 1876
Paul Reeves: An Eye for Design feat. Textiles as Art II | 548
Auction: 14 February 2019 at 11:00 GMT
Description
the ring-turned spindle back with upholstered panel, enclosed by corresponding tapered uprights, on original velvet upholstered seat and tapering legs, linked by a galleried stretcher
Dimensions
40cm wide, 91cm high, 43cm deep
Footnote
Literature: Soros, Susan Weber ‘Rediscovering H.W. Batley (1846-1932), British Aesthetic Movement Artist and Designer, Studies in the Decorative Arts, VI, no. 2 (Spring-Summer 1999), p. 14, fig. 15
Whiteway, Michael and Gere, Charlotte 'Nineteenth Century Design: From Pugin to Mackintosh', Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1993, p.164, pl.203 where a side chair in this design is illustrated.
Note: This chair featured in the Collinson & Lock stand at the 1876 Philadelphia Exhibition, where it appeared with a large cabinet by Bruce Talbert and an Anglo-Japanese cabinet by E.W. Godwin. The American decorated Harrison used an illustration of the chair in the frontispiece of her book 'Woman's Handiwork in Modern Homes (New York 1881) and Herter Brothers used the design in their 1872-3 decoration of Thurlow Lodge, Menlo Park, California.
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