Mallams (20% buyer’s premium) offered 12 impeccably provenanced pieces by Peter Waals (1870-1937) at Oxford on May 23.
Each came with documents showing he had supplied them in the mid-1930s to Mrs Crowther, a daughter of Joseph Goddard, one of the principal patrons of the Cotswolds School craftsmen.
At the time Waals, previously a foreman at the Daneway House workshop of Cotswolds pioneer Ernest Gimson, was working from his own workshop in the nearby Gloucestershire village of Chalford.