6th Mar, 2021 9:30 GMT/BST

20th Century Design

 
  Lot 2088
 

2088

Robert Mouseman Thompson (1876-1955): An English Oak Communion Table, the dowelled two plank...

Robert Mouseman Thompson (1876-1955): An English Oak Communion Table, the dowelled two plank top above an inscription TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF JAMES WILSON DENHAM, WHO IN THE GLOWING SPLENDOUR OF HIS YOUTH, GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY OCT 12TH 1917, above four tracery panels, on four octagonal legs joined by stretchers, with carved mouse trademark, 107cm by 53cm, 84.5cm high See illustration Made for Husthwaite Methodist Chapel, North Yorkshire. James Wilson Denham (1894-1917) was from Highthorne, Husthwaite. He was killed at Passchendale on the Western Front, 12th October 1917.

Sold for £4,000
Estimated at £1,000 - £1,500


 

.Shrinkage crack through one of the tracery panels. Splash marks, natural splits in the grain. Resisdual white paint.

 


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Auction: 20th Century Design, 6th Mar, 2021

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