Charlie Thomas
Group Head, Private Collections, Furniture & Works of Art, U.K
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A Victorian walnut pedestal desk by Hindley & Sons
29 March 2011, 12:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge£1,000 - £1,500
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A Victorian walnut pedestal desk
by Hindley & Sons
the removable top with front hinged slide, above a three quarter gallery and tooled green leather inset top, above three frieze drawers, the left drawer with a divided interior, each pedestal with a panelled cupboard door enclosing three drawers, on a plinth base and concealed castors, the central drawer stamped 'C.HINDLEY & SONS LATE MILES & EDWARDS 134 OXFORD ST. LONDON 1075' , 137cm wide, 74cm deep, 85cm high (53.5in wide, 29in deep, 33in high).
the removable top with front hinged slide, above a three quarter gallery and tooled green leather inset top, above three frieze drawers, the left drawer with a divided interior, each pedestal with a panelled cupboard door enclosing three drawers, on a plinth base and concealed castors, the central drawer stamped 'C.HINDLEY & SONS LATE MILES & EDWARDS 134 OXFORD ST. LONDON 1075' , 137cm wide, 74cm deep, 85cm high (53.5in wide, 29in deep, 33in high).
Footnotes
This stamp is recorded on various types of furniture, such as a walnut writing-table and an ormolu-mounted kidney-shaped yew-wood and ebony-inlaid writing-desk, both illustrated in C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, p. 267, figs. 497 and 498.C. Hindley and Sons, had their premises at 134 Oxford Street, from 1820-1830. Several pieces bearing this stamp, from Tew Park, Great Tew, Oxfordshire, were sold from the collection of The late Major Eustace Robb, Christie's house sale, 27-29 May 1987, including lots 214, a Victorian satin-birch armchair and lot 1108 a Victorian mahogany wardrobe.
The activities of the firm, who were active from 1817-1892, are discussed in L. Microulis, Charles Hindley & Sons, London House Furnishers of the Nineteenth Century, The Bard Studies in the Decorative Arts, vol. 5, no. 2, 1998, pp. 69-96.