Bruce J. Talbert for Gillows Aesthetic Movement Davenport with Central Carved Rosette
£5,200 £4,160
Bruce J. Talbert for Gillows of Lancaster. An Aesthetic Movement Davenport with a brass gallery to the back and an inkwell and pen compartment below. It features a recent leather to the lift-up slope, a bank of four drawers to the right side, a slide to the left side, and a central lower panel with a carved rosette within a carved square flanked by turned supports and extended front feet.
This Davenport corresponds exactly to Talbert furniture designed for the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras made by Gillow. See "Arts & Crafts Furniture" by John Andrews, printed by the Antique Collectors Club, ISBN 1-85149-483-9, page 37, for a comparable sideboard.
Width: 24.75 in (62.87 cm)
Depth: 24 in (60.96 cm)
