Ernest Gimson Cotswold School chest

Ernest Gimson Cotswold School chest

Code: 10685

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A superb, large, Ernest Gimson design,  Cotswold School oak chest of drawers; with two short over three long drawers. Alfred Bucknell  (Gimson`s blacksmith) designed punched ring handles on unusual walnut hexagonal backplates; c1910. Similar Gimson chest designs exist in the Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum archives. 
Edward Barnsley also used similar wooden hexagonal backplates with Bucknall ring handles in some of his early work.
h: 42” d:20”  w:33.75”