Book end
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 1651349.1
Summary
One of a pair of carved oak bookends, decorated with Lord Nuffield's coat of arms. Silver, 2 tudor roses, 3 pears, scales, motto. Maker's mark for Robert Thompson's Craftsmen Limited, 1958.
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