Object Description
This is a large antique Victorian oak country house entrance hall stand, by the world renowned cabinet maker Edwards & Roberts, Circa 1890 in date.
It is made of beautiful solid oak and has a sriking gray-black granite plateau above a single frieze drawer flanked by walking stick and umbrella provisions. The drawer bears the impressed stamp of Edwards & Roberts, and is also stamped S& H Jewell, the retailer.
It is a stylish yet very practical item which would look lovely in any hall.
Provenance:
Newton Old Hall, Derbyshire
Condition:
In excellent condition, please see photos for confirmation.
Dimensions in cm:
Height 104 cm x Width 192 cm x Depth 53 cm
Dimensions in inches:
Height 3 foot, 5 inches x Width 6 foot, 4 inches x Depth 1 foot, 9 inches
Newton Old Hall
is a Grade II listed building in Newton, Derbyshire,
See photo.
Edwards & Roberts
The firm Edwards & Roberts was one of the best English antique furniture cabinet makers of the second half of the eighteenth century. The company was founded in 1845 and by 1854 was trading as ‘Edwards & Roberts’, 21 Wardour Street, Antique and Modern Cabinet Makers and Importers of Ancient Furniture’. By 1892 they occupied more than a dozen buildings in Wardour Street, where they continued to trade until the end of the century.
They became one of the leading London cabinet makers and retailers producing high quality furniture and working in a variety of styles, both modern and revivalist. Their business also involved retailing, adapting and restoring the finest antique furniture and there are many examples of their earlier furniture with later embellishments bearing their stamp. The quality of timber used was always the best quality with fine burr walnuts and lighter toned satinwood as they specialised in marquetry, inlay and ormolu.
S. & H. Jewell
were retailers and cabinet makers working from premises at 29-31 Little Queen Street, Holborn, in London. One of their receipts, dated as late as 1st May 1894, which details Jewell pieces commissioned for Standen, East Grinstead in Sussex, also draws attention to the company’s founding in 1830.
Unfortunately no evidence of furniture made prior to 1840 by the firm is known to exist, “Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840”, ed. by G. Beard and C. Gilbert, 1986, p.488.
Our reference: A3632