Object Description
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Lambs of Manchester. (Stamped to drawer). Attributed to Alfred Waterhouse
An Aesthetic Movement oak étagère, buffet or hall table.
The central stylised carved floral detail flanked by two carved sunflowers to the shaped back with turned and spiral details to the front legs, on original castors. A large central drawer with brass backed ring pull handles.
Jambs Lamb of Manchester exhibited elaborate furniture in the French taste by Hugues Protat and W.J. Estall at the London Exhibition of 1862. Charles Bevan was employed to make designs for inlaid Gothic-style pieces in the late 1860s.
Lamb made furniture to Alfred Waterhouse’s designs for the Manchester Assize Courts, shown at Paris in 1867 and 1878, and exhibited ‘Quaint’ furniture at the 1887 Manchester Jubilee Exhibition; to which this piece of furniture stylistically relates to.
Lambs were absorbed into Goodall, Lamb & Heighway in 1899.
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