PETER WAALS (DUTCH 1870-1937)
WRITING CABINET, CIRCA 1925
Estimate: £10,000 - £15,000
Auction: 19 March 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
English walnut and burr walnut, the interior chequer inlaid in holly and ebony, the fall with leather writing surface, with patinated and chased handles by Alfred Bucknell, signed under interior drawer P. WAALS/ CHALFORD/ GLOUCESTERSHIRE./ (ASSISTANT E. SMITH)
Dimensions
129.5cm high, 99cm wide, 40.5cm deep (51in high, 39in wide, 16in deep)
Provenance
Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood, Exeter ‘Quarterly Fine Sale’, 28th October 2014, lot 868
With H. Blairman & Sons, London
Footnote
Ernest Smith was the son of a skilled cabinetmaker who had worked for Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle. He joined the workforce at Ernest Gimson’s Daneway Workshop in 1904 as an experienced craftsman and became foreman when, after Gimson’s death in 1919, the business was taken over by Peter Waals and the workshops moved to Chalford.