Book-ends
Robert Thompson's Craftsmen Ltd
Category
Furniture
Date
1958
Materials
Oak
Measurements
131 mm (H)89 mm (D)
Place of origin
Kilburn
Order this imageCollection
Nuffield Place, Oxfordshire
NT 1651349
Summary
Pair of carved oak bookends, different coats of arms, one for Lord Nuffield, the other for Guy's Hospital, London. Silver, 2 tudor roses, 3 pears, scales, motto. Maker's mark of small mouse for Robert Thompson's Craftsmen Ltd.
Provenance
Collection William R. Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, by bequest to Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 1963, by transfer to National Trust, Nuffield Place, 2011.
Marks and inscriptions
inscribed (?) ; on coat of arms ; Fiat Justuta ; ;
Makers and roles
Robert Thompson's Craftsmen Ltd, maker