Cotswold School Furniture
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Cotswold 9 see also NIF 11
An early Arts and Crafts Cotswold school walnut bureau of petite proportions, the design attributed to Ernest Gimson.
The quality of this craftsman hand made bureau is almost unsurpassable. The fold down front inlaid with holly chequered string inlay, opening with stylised butterfly hinges onto automatic protruding supports with chamfered ends that extend to support the writing area when opened from underneath it. Inside reveals two drawers and six open pigeon holes above with a central two door arched cupboard with segmented top divided by ebony string inlay and an ebony key stone with ebony pillars to each side emulating a grand architectural doorway.
The main body has through tenon details with exposed dovetail joints to the top and sides.
The drawer fronts having deep chamfered panels with the central drawer made from burr walnut giving a beautiful subtle contrast to the entire aesthetic of this bureau.
There is lots of storage with eight drawers in all, retaining the original polished medieval style steel handles with pierced circular back plates and sweet little drop handles.
The whole sat on bracket feet with a sweeping under tier.
Craftsmans name E.R. WHISHAW stamped to drawer top.
Furniture doesn't come much purer to the Arts & Crafts Movement in the Cotswolds than this beautiful little functional Work of Art with lots of storage.
Circa 1900.
Height 36", Width 24", Depth 14"
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Cotswold 10 see also NIF 35 and DC 11
Edward Barnsley designed by, made by Charles Bray.
A superior and impressive Cotswold School walnut breakfront glazed bookcase/cabinet designed by Edward Barnsley, and made by Charles Bray, dated 1932, with fine ebony and chequer inlaid detailing around each of the upper glazed doors with turned ebony handles and adjustable shelves behind. Flanked by slender concealed cupboards with adjustable shelves and further open adjustable shelves to each of the ends, the lower section with three conforming shaped cupboards with double fielded doors flanked with fitted end cabinets, with five drawers of various depths to each.
Provenance Mrs D.E. Neale, commissioned in 1932. Aspects of Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Arts,Fischer Fine Art, catalogue number 6 illustrated page 13, description page 15 Private collection.
H 77', W 88', D 24'.
1932
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Cotswold 11
Arts and Crafts oak refectory table made by Peter Waals, with high stretcher and chamfered through tennons and shaped tapering feet. For similar examples see 'Modern British Furniture' page 179 and 'The Studio Year Book 1928.
Length 6' Width 27 1/2". Circa 1900.
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Cotswold 12
Arts and Crafts Cotswold School drop leaf dining table with lattice work ends and exposed tennons to the top the legs united by twin floor stretchers.
Height 24", Width closed 10", Width open 23 1/2". Circa 1900.
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Cotswold 14 see also MR 26
A small Arts and Crafts wall mirror with bevelled stylised flower to the glass and small lower shelf.
Height 22", Width at base 12 1/2". Circa 1905.
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Cotswold 44
A pair of Armchairs designed by Ernest Gimson and made by Edward Gardener.
Circa 1905.
£SOLD.
Ernest Gimson revived this ancient village craft of making ash and oak chairs with rush seats to the true traditions of The Arts and Crafts Movement. Philip Clissett was a very skilled chair maker working at Bosbury in Herefordshire since 1838 and Gimson took lessons from him in 1890. Gimson's workshops were at Daneway in Gloucestershire and he inspired and taught Edward Gardiner this old art of chair making. Edward Gardiner later moved to Warwickshire where he worked until he died in 1958.
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Cotswold 45
A rare and important pair of hand formed steel candlesticks designed by Earnest Gimson and made by Alfred Bucknell. The last three images are his original signed drawings, held in The Cheltenham Museum Collections.
Height 11 1/2", Width 6".
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Cotswold 46 see also ST 66
Cotswold School Arts and Crafts two tier walnut craftsman made side table with arch supports and through tennon details, on sledge style feet.
Height 19.5" , Width 24" , Depth 17.75".
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Cotswold 47
A rare and important Arts and Crafts oak dining table by Ernest Gimson with Hayrake detailed stretcher.
Length 6'6", Width 41 1/2", height is just under 29".
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Cotswold 50 see also Corner Cub 55
A Cotswold School hanging corner cabinet Romney Green.
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Cotswold 51
A Cotswold School coalbox by Ernest Gimson with chip carving and exposed tennons. The handle is almost identical to oak dresser's Gimson designed. This is a rare and early example of Gimsons work.
Height 20", Width 18" Depth 13" ( handle protrudes another 2"). Circa 1890.
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Cotswold 52 see also CD 48
Ernest Barnsley. A highly important Cotswold School oak chest of drawers made around 1902 during the short period of his partnership with Ernest Gimson at Daneway.
Measures Height 36”, Width 40”, Depth 20”
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Cotswold 53 see also TB 51
A super quality Cotswold style oak dining table designed by Edward Barnsley for the Rural Industries Bureau.
Height 29", Length 6' 3" Depth 36".
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Cotswold 54 see also TB 51a
A super quality pair of Cotswold style oak armchairs designed by Edward Barnsley for the Rural Industries Bureau.
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Cotswold 55
A high quality hand crafted oak and rush seated double stool probably made by Edward Gardiner with incised marking lines to the legs for precise measuring of the joints. All pegged joints with with hand cut oak U supports to the underneath and an extra stretcher to the upper middle for added strength.
H 16', D 15 1/2', L 54 3/4'.
1910
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Cotswold 56.
A Walnut corner cupboard the original design by Ernest Gimson and Sidney Barnsley. Although this is superb quality I feel it is not quite up to the quality that Gimson and Barnsley were producing at the turn of the century and therefore later somewhere before the 1920's. There is a photograph of an oak version on page 99, fig 64 of 'Gimson and the Barnsleys' by Mary Greensted 1980, (it is situated behind the white ladder back chair images). For a later rendition which is in Lotherton Hall. See also Gilbert, Christopher 'Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall', vol I, London 1978, p. 59, no. 41, illustrated with the design sketch. This version of 1903 is in oak and was purchased by Henry H. Peach, Dryad Works, Leicester in 1915.
Height 78 1/2" 200cm, Depth from back along each side 22" 55cm, Width 39" 98cm.
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Cotswold 57 see also CS 33
Ernest Gimson, designed by. A rare pair of Sheradised steel candlesticks, made by Alfred Bucknell, punched and chased with geometric design to the top, with a central knop positioned to aid handling.
Height 9" Width at base 5 1/2". Circa 1910.
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Cotswold 58
A beautiful Cotswold School rocking chair, made by Edward Gardiner.
These tradition chairs are steeped in history, their design have evolved from a long line of English chair makers going back to the late 17thC and 18thC.
Edward Gardiner was encouraged to take up chair making by Ernest Gimson who in turn was encouraged by Philip Clissett. Clissett had been making traditional ladder back chairs from as early as 1838, those skills passed down to him becoming a famous master craftsman of his own generation because of his fortuitous connection with the Arts and Crafts Movement and it's call to honest handmade goods. He was discovered by Ernest Gimson who spent a few weeks with Clissett in C1890 to learn the art of chair making which Gimson in turn passed onto Edward Gardiner and encouraged him in around 1904. Gardiner then developed his own art and style of chair making in the traditional way. Always handmade usually from Ash making them quite tactile, extremely strong and durable, yet very lightweight and therefore easy to move around. This traditional way English ladderbacks were made is where the original Shaker furniture making tradition came from. Ann Lee and her husband Abraham Stanley, the very first 'Shaker Quakers' to emigrate from the UK to Colonial America in 1774 bought the essence of what Clissett and his forefathers stood for.
Clissett was once described by Alfred Powell as resembling, ‘what the old aristocratic poor used to be’....
H 42", W 21", D 25.5".
C.1900
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Cotswold 59
Ernest Gimson. A rare and important Cotswold school walnut gate leg table. The design for this table attached here is held in the Cheltenham Trust Borough Council's Archives. Ernest Gimson & Sidney Barnsley Archive, No. 1941.22.393, inscribed Folding Tea.
H 27", W 38" Open, W 13" Closed.
C.1900
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Cotswold 62 see also MOD 73
An Arts and Crafts style coffee table by The Barnsey Workshops. With bold use of timber and made with exposed joints, through tenons and foxwedges. Stamped Barnsley.
Circa 1950's.
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Cotswold 63
Four Arts and Crafts Cotswold School ladder back armchairs called 'The Clisset' made by Edward Gardner, one is stamped on the inside leg. With scribed legs and dowelled at each joint. One has had some damage to the right side of the ladders but has been repaired well (Images attached).
Circa 1890.
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Cotswold 64
A superb quality chunky Arts and Crafts Oak eight-seat 'Tretower' refectory dining table designed by Paul Matt who was the key figure in the design and manufacture of Brynmawr Furniture, son of a German cabinet maker (who had made furniture to the designs of Charles Rennie Mackintosh), Matt served his apprenticeship with his father. He arrived in Brynmawr in 1929, keen to help in the Quaker project however he could. He set up the furniture workshop early in 1930. What is revealed by his designs for Brynmawr furniture is his knowledge of The Arts and Crafts movement, and continental Modernism, combined with a very practical approach to the materials, facilities and labour available. This is a pure hand craftsman built table.
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Cotswold 65
Edward Barnsley. A handmade Arts & Crafts oak two tier circular coffee or side table. Stamped 'Barnsley' underneath in two places
H 24", W 19.2", D 19.2."
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