Recent Acquisitions

A FINE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BUREAU À CYLINDRE BY LOUIS MOREAU, CIRCA 1790.

With three frieze drawers below the veined marble top, the cylinder enclosing a pull-out writing surface with its original green morocco leather above four drawers around a kneehole, the right-hand drawer with a coffre fort. With a leather lined slide to each side. All mounts original. Stamped L. MOREAU.

45in. (115cm) high; 50in. (127cm) wide; 25.5in. (65cm) deep.

£28,000

A FINE GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERPENTINE COMMODE, CIRCA 1760.

The angles with a blind gothic fretwork. Handles original.

34in. (86cm) high; 44in. (112cm) wide; 24in. (61cm) deep.

£9,500

AN EXCEPTIONAL ARTS & CRAFTS OAK COFFER DESIGNED BY HENRY WILSON (1864-1934) AND MADE BY W.E. MICKLEWRIGHT, CIRCA 1923.

Carved with the twelve signs of the zodiac.

33in. (84cm) high; 64in. (163cm) wide; 23.5in. (60cm) deep.

Literature: an identical coffer exhibited at the British Institute of Industrial Art in 1923, is illustrated in The Studio, vol 86 1923, p. 265.

A FINE TRANSITIONAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOIS-SATINE AND MARQUETRY COMMODE BY JEAN-BAPTISTE TUART AND FERDINAND BURY, CIRCA 1770.

With original eared moulded Carrara marble top above two long drawers. All mounts original. Stamped J.B TUART and F. BURY.

34.25in. (87cm) high; 51.25in. (130cm) wide; 24in. (61cm) deep.

£28,000

AN EXCEPTIONAL ARTS & CRAFTS OAK DRESSER BY SIDNEY BARNSLEY, CIRCA 1900.

The plate rack with grooved shelves fitted with iron cup hooks, the bow-front base with eight panelled doors, and with a door to each 

side enclosing three shelves. With exposed dovetails and tenons throughout. Retaining all it’s original wrought-iron handles by Alfred

Bucknell.

72.5in. (184cm) high; 84.5in. (214cm) wide; 28in. (71cm) deep.

£38,000

Provenance: made for Catherine Powell, daughter of Barnsley’s friends Alfred and Louise Powell, the Arts & Crafts architect and ceramicist respectively.

thence by descent until 2023.