Camden Antiques has dated this piece to the 1900s.
The pair of glazed doors surmounted with a freeze of carved rosettes and opening to access an interior with adjustable shelving. The pair of cupboard doors beneath open to reveal a shelved interior. All doors are lockable (key supplied). All standing on handsome carved ogee bracket feet. Cleaned and waxed in our workshops and now offered for sale in excellent original condition, ready to go straight into the home or office.
Dimensions:
Width 110cms
Depth 41cms
Height 183cms
James Shoolbred & Co
The name of James Shoolbred & Co is highly respected among admirers of Aesthetic Movement furniture. Their antique desks, Victorian dining chairs and antique marquetry furniture were produced for wealthy households up to 1931. A particularly fine example of James Shoolbred antique marquetry furniture – an ornate piano by designer Henry Batley – is on display at the V & A museum, London.
Established in the 1820s, James Shoolbred’s Tottenham Court Road company began life as a drapers. It began supplying textiles to the furniture trade, and expanded into the stores either side, branching into interior design. By the 1870s, the company was designing and manufacturing its own furniture.
A major factor of James Shoolbred’s success was their detailed catalogues, which were published from around 1873. Configured to showcase the company’s designs beyond the confines of London, they made Shoolbred an overnight success.
In the 1880s the firm moved to larger premises. Imaginatively laid out, with detailed room schemes showing off the company’s latest furniture and textile designs, it became an unmitigated success.
Although James Shoolbred & Co specialised in furniture of the Aesthetic Movement they encompassed all the fashionable trends of the time, from the motifs and patterns of Japanese design in their antique marquetry furniture, to Art Nouveau and gothic influences in their antique desks and Victorian dining chairs.
Camden Antiques has dated this piece to the 1900s.
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