Arts and Crafts - 24th August 2021
Lot 381
A Cox & Sons throne chair the design attributed to William Butterfield
Estimate £800 - £1,200
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Description
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.