ATTRIBUTED TO LAMB OF MANCHESTER, A VICTORIAN BURR YEW AND W...

Estimate

£800 - £1,200

ATTRIBUTED TO LAMB OF MANCHESTER, A VICTORIAN BURR YEW AND WALNUT MARQUETRY INLAID GILT BRONZE MOUNTED CREDENZA SIDEBOARD
The moulded top above a centred tablet of putti and a sheep flanked by a pair of female facial masks, above ribbons and flowers, the pair of doors inserted with a pair of Sèvres style oval porcelain panels painted with figures in a classical ruins landscape, the bowed sides with three mirror backed shelves applied with pierced swag galleries, raised on a plinth base.
(h 101cm x d 41cm x w 182cm)

N.B. the firm of James Lamb was the pre-eminent Manchester cabinetmaker in the second half of the 19th century. James Lamb was born in 1816 and joined the family business developing it into a high class decorating and furnishing firm. The firm had a workshop in Castleford and their main gallery in John Dalton Street, Manchester, with showrooms over three floors. The firm was to go on to international success winning medals at the London 1862 Exhibition, the Paris 1867 Exhibition and Paris 1878 Exhibition. They employed designers of the calibre of Charles Bevan, Bruce Talbert and W.J Estall. The cabinet the firm exhibited at the 1867 Exhibition was sold Sotheby's, London, 3 October 1997. When James Lamb died in 1903, his obituary appeared in The Journal of Decorative Art and British Decorators where it was recorded that: 
His name was a synonym for the best in everything that he did from 1850-1885, and he towered over everybody in Lancashire and Yorkshire as maker of high-class furniture.....to middle aged and older men connected with the furniture and decorating business, his name for fifty years stood as a landmark for all that was best in both spheres of industrial art