ERNEST GIMSON (BRITISH 1864-1919)
CHEST OF DRAWERS, CIRCA 1915
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
Auction: 19 March 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
oak, with patinated brass handles by Alfred Bucknell
Dimensions
90cm high, 99cm wide, 49cm deep (35 ½in high, 39in wide,19 ¼in deep)
Provenance
Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, ‘The Hancock Collection’, 25th January 2023, lot 290
Footnote
Literature: Carruthers A., Greensted M., Roscoe B. Ernest Gimson: Arts & Crafts Designer and Architect, Yale 2019, p.220, pl. 202 where a drawing for a similar chest is illustrated, and p. 258, pl 243 where line drawings for similar handles are illustrated.
The Gimson original line drawings held at the Wilson Art Gallery and Museum, Cheltenham, catalogue number 1941-222-491