A CHERRY WOOD TRIPOD TABLE BY HUGH BIRKET, IN THE MANNER OF WILLIAM MASTERS, DATED 1984 The facetted tilt top revolving on a birdcage, stamped in gilt to the underside of the tripod 'H.B 1984', with stylised Barnsley style lozenge shaped dowel patches 68cm high, 69.5cm diameter Hugh Birkett was a furniture maker and master craftsman who spent a short time at Birmingham School of Furniture before working with Oliver Morel and then Edward Gardiner. In 1949 he set up on his own in Solihull making domestic and church furniture in the tradition of Ernest Gimson and Edward Barnsley. In this example, dating from his later workshop in Moreton-in-Marsh, he has combined the construction finesse of his Arts and Crafts forebears with an unmistakably 18th century design. The design of this table base with hipped shaped legs relates to an octagonal table supplied by the London cabinetmaker William Masters to the 2nd Duke of Atholl for Atholl House, Perthshire in 1755.
A CHERRY WOOD TRIPOD TABLE BY HUGH BIRKET, IN THE MANNER OF WILLIAM MASTERS, DATED 1984 The facetted tilt top revolving on a birdcage, stamped in gilt to the underside of the tripod 'H.B 1984', with stylised Barnsley style lozenge shaped dowel patches 68cm high, 69.5cm diameter Hugh Birkett was a furniture maker and master craftsman who spent a short time at Birmingham School of Furniture before working with Oliver Morel and then Edward Gardiner. In 1949 he set up on his own in Solihull making domestic and church furniture in the tradition of Ernest Gimson and Edward Barnsley. In this example, dating from his later workshop in Moreton-in-Marsh, he has combined the construction finesse of his Arts and Crafts forebears with an unmistakably 18th century design. The design of this table base with hipped shaped legs relates to an octagonal table supplied by the London cabinetmaker William Masters to the 2nd Duke of Atholl for Atholl House, Perthshire in 1755.
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