Lot 844
  • 844

A fine F. & C. Osler cut glass footstool Birmingham, circa 1890

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • stamped F & C OSLER
  • 58cm wide by 40cm deep by 17.5cm high; 22 7/8 in. by 15¾in. by 7¼in.
for the Indian market, the rectangular glass form with wood carcass, cut with oval lozenges and panels of large diamonds, set on four bun feet overall cut with raised diamonds, recently upholstered to the original style in crimson silk velvet

Catalogue Note

See Jane Shadel Spillman, European Glass Furnishings for Eastern Palaces, p.79 for the original design, dated 1875-76 . This stool appears in Osler's pattern book records around 1890.