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!" Furniture Find #. Sweet Treat $. Exquisite Perch
Estimate £100-£150 Estimate £400-£600 Estimate £800-£1,200
Sold £150 Sold £820 Sold £3,812
This unusual art nouveau-cum- Advertising and kitchen This majestic mahogany and
Arts & Cra!s-style high-back ephemera are enjoying a carved giltwood stool came from
elbow chair sold at Che"ns resurgence at the moment, and the Bonhams Contents of a 19th
recently, and has stylised tulip this late 19th-century shop display Century Baltic Villa sale, whose
motifs on the pierced back rail and case for Fry’s chocolate hit the antique gems tempted beady-eyed
wavy arm struts. The turn-of-the- fashion mark at Fieldings’ popular buyers. Made in the late 19th or
century piece was made by James Decades of Design sale in October. early 20th century, but re$ecting
Shoolbred & Co of To#enham The ebonised case measured the earlier French Empire style,
Court Road, London. The early 68 x 45 x 24cm, and, with its the stool rests on paw feet and
19th-century store was originally painted arch, mirror base and is decorated with swans, their
a draper’s shop, but by the 1860s glazed sloping front, would make upstretched wings supporting
had expanded out into domestic an excellent display cabinet for two handles. It measures 106cm
furniture. Collectors look out almost any small collectable or set wide and 73cm high and could
for the James Shoolbred & Co of quirky kitchen paraphernalia. have been placed at a window,
ivorine labels. 01384 444140; a dressing table or a piano.
01223 213343; cheffins.co.uk/fineart fieldingsauctioneers.co.uk 020 7447 7447; bonhams.com
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