Bedside cupboard
Collinson and Lock
Category
Furniture
Date
1896
Materials
Rosewood, satinwood, marquetry, brass handles and castors
Measurements
90 x 55 x 47.5 cm
Place of origin
London
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Standen House and Garden, West Sussex
NT 1213972.4
Summary
The pedestal cupboard from a rosewood, satinwood and inlaid bedroom suite, supplied to James Beale by Collinson & Lock in 1896. Comprising a wardrobe, dressing table, marble-top washstand, a pedestal cupboard and three chairs, all profusely inlaid with scrolls, flowers, fruit, masks and cornucopiae, all with distinctive reeded uprights and reeded tapering legs with castors, as well as original handles; the wardrobe with central bevelled mirror-plate door flanked by five drawers below a panelled cupboard door, with cornice above and plinth below; the kneehole dressing table with central projecting drawer flanked by three drawers either side, surmounted by a swing-frame mirror between uprights with flame finials and flanked by small drawers; the kneehole washstand with shaped white marble top and tiled splash-back with shelf above, the central frieze drawer between curved drawers and curved cupboards below; the pedestal cupboard with ledge-back and enclosed by a panelled door. The three chairs are NT 1213973.
Full description
The London firm of Collinson & Lock were established in 1870 and a year later published their catalogue of ‘Sketches of Artistic Furniture’. Their principal designer was T.E. Collcutt and they enjoyed considerable success throughout the 1870s and 1880s, merging with Jackson & Graham in 1884. They were themselves taken over by Gillows in 1897. The firm became especially well-known for their signature rosewood furniture with ivory intarsia designed by Stephen Webb.
Provenance
Supplied to James Beale in July 1896 by Collinson & Lock, 76-80 Oxford Street, London: 'A handsomely inlaid rosewood bedroom suite' at a cost of £294.
Makers and roles
Collinson and Lock, furniture manufacturer