Lot 293 , A Reformed Gothic oak dining chair, designed by Edward Welby Pugin, c.1864,

A Reformed Gothic oak dining chair, designed by Edward Welby Pugin, c.1864, with revealed pegs to the mortice and tenon joints on the chamfered X-frame supports and stretchers, brass ball feet to the front, upholstered in green velvet with brass boss fixings
Estimate £150-250

Provenance: See Victoria & Albert Museum inventory no. W.1-1991 for an identical chair. This chair is identical to a set of chairs designed by Edward Welby Pugin for the Grange, his family home, in Ramsgate in about 1864. The Grange was designed and built 1843-4 by his father, the architect, A.W.N. Pugin. E.W. Pugin also designed the building and furniture of The Granville Hall Hotel in Ramsgate, with the overall furnishing supervised by Messrs J D Davidson & Co. Ramsgate, which opened in December 1869.

Small dents, knocks, chips and scuffs commensurate with age, cresting rail is a little faded to the front and there are a number of small old ink? stains scattered throughout but overall solid chair of good rich original tone, green velvet upholstery now a little tired
width 1ft 8in height 2ft 9in


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Sold for £1,400