Ferreira Antiques

Description

An exceptional set of 6 Marsh, Jones & Cribb antique art nouveau dining chairs in excellent original condition with original sage green/grey leather upholstery. It is a truly rare find to get these chairs in such brilliant original condition. Many more photos can be supplied on request.

Marsh, Jones & Cribb were renowned antique furniture cabinet makers in the Victorian era. They were known for their quality craftsmanship from gothic to simple arts and crafts designs. They began as cabinet makers, ca. 1850 in Leeds as Marsh & Jones of Leeds. They later expanded to Cavendish Square, London when the well known cabinetmaker of Soho, London Henry Humphries Cribb sent his son to serve his apprenticeship with Marsh and Jones. After he had finished his apprenticeship in ca. 1867 he was offered a partnership in the company leading to the new and well known name by today’s antique collectors, Marsh, Jones & Cribb.
This set of 6 chairs are dated to 1902 - The date is visible on one of the paper labels even though they are faded and damaged. One of the chairs does have an additional label with “Harrogate” printed on it.

They made antique furniture designed by well-known designers such as Charles Bevan and Talbert and many of these pieces were in famous exhibitions.

The interesting thing about Marsh, Jones & Cribb furniture is the paper labels used, with their maker’s stamp, cabinet makers name and signature with date all handwritten.

CONDITION: Structurally, the chairs are perfect. The leather is in beautiful distressed condition. there are two chairs with a very small round hole (small cigarette burn marks of yesteryear...?) in the leather and one of these two chairs have a tear in the leather of about 2 inches but no loss of leather. Some of the corners of the leather are worn through as seen on the photos with original horsehair visible. The seats have saged over the years but still have a comfortable feel when used. Overall in excellent original condition.

Dimensions: Total height 107.5 cm (42.25 inch) Seat height 48 cm (19 inch) Width 47cm (18.5 inch) Depth 46 cm (18 inch)