THOMAS GNOMEMAN WHITTAKER ADZED OAK SPINNING STOOL WITH CARVED YORKSHIRE ROSE CARVING

A Thomas Gnomeman Whittaker carved Oak Spinning Stool with shaped and adzed back housing a carved Yorkshire Rose in recess with octagonal adzed seat standing on three massive shaped legs one with a carved Gnomeman signature in recess

Good condition and colour

Circa 1960

Price:SOLD

Biography: Tom Whittaker circa 1910-1991 lived and worked in Littlebeck near Whitby after studying in his native York and with craftsmen in Germany and Switzerland.
He used only English Oak and his trademark was to carve a little woodland gnome into each and every piece of furniture he made. Legend has it that a gnome is born every time an acorn sprouts and then that gnome will guard that tree throughout its life

Tom Whittaker the Gnome Man of Littlebecks work is highly recognised (see Judith Millers Antiques price guide 2006).
His Vulnerata statue of the wounded Virgin commissioned by the monastery of Valladolid replaced a figure defaced by Elizabethan sailors during a piratical raid is one of his noted works.
Tom Whittaker died in 1991 his business ended and his workshop was converted into a private house

Of all the Woodcarvers and furniture makers of North Yorkshire the Gnome mans work is highly sought after