British Art Pottery & Design - 20th October 2021
Lot 429
A Cox & Sons throne chair the design attributed to William Butterfield
Estimate £400 - £600
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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 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).