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 a 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. Butterfiled also used similar stained contrasting for the choir stalls of Keble College, Oxford (1870).

Catalogue notes

The London art furnishers Cox & Sons employed a number of designers, one of whom was William Butterfield. Butterfield used identical ebonised or dark stained columns and quatrefoil decoration for the choir stalls at Keble College, Oxford (1876) and on the Bishop's throne at the church of All Saints, Babbacombe, Devon c.1874.