A walnut cupboard with bookshelves by Peter Waals

A walnut cupboard with bookshelves by Peter Waals, the twin compartment cupboard with single shelf, patinated hinges and hand wrought patinated brass drop handles probably by Alfred Bucknell, with dovetail joints, sleigh feet and simple ebonised wood inlaid bead borders, 124cm. high, 60.5cm. wide, 27cm deep.

Provenance

Laurence Bisson, Pembroke College, Oxford, then professor at Queen's University Belfast.

Philip Boyd, thence by descent.

Literature

Ernest Gimson & The Cotswold Group of Craftsmen, Leicester Arts and Museum Services, page 59 catalogue F.30 for Ernest Gimson's variation on this cabinet in oak, and page 73 catalogue F.55 for the original design drawing by Peter Waals (including the sleigh feet).