A Cox & Sons throne chair the design attributed to William Butterfield

A Cox & Sons throne chair the design attributed to William Butterfield, probably manufactured by Messrs Cox & Son, architectural form, the planked back set with carved roundel panel, the arms pierced with an ogee panel and ionic pillar fronts, arched tracery under-carriage with similar trefoil roundels, with staining to details, unsigned, 105cm. high

Provenance

Paul Shutler

Private collection

Literature

Illustrated Catalogue of Church Furnishings, Cox & Son, page 15 this chair design illustrated. Butterfield also used similar stained contrasting for the choir stalls of Keble College, Oxford (1870).