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IP 24 - A stunning oak Arts & Crafts full size snooker table by Riley, this table has an original advert from 1900 & is still used as the frontice page on the Riley website. Circa 1900. £POA.
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IP 24 - A stunning oak Arts & Crafts full size snooker table by Riley, this table has an original advert from 1900 & is still used as the frontice page on the Riley website. Circa 1900. £POA.
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An outstanding pure Arts & Crafts 3 fold Walnut screen depicting scenes of St George & the Dragon with exceptionally skilled carving & intricate detail. The rich polychrome enamel colours bring this master piece vividly to life. The first scene is of St George slaying the Dragon & a tall flower to his left, then what looks like St George training baby dragons by the sea with a sailing Galleon anchored just offshore & then finally St George on his horse with the Dragon as if he has been mastered as a pet with a castle in the background. The back has Gilt crosses within circles on a Green background.
This is very intriguing work of Art & a piece I am researching, it is quite possible that this is a rare Morris & Co piece, the polychrome colours & carvings are quite reminiscent of the work Morris & friends did at the Kensington Museum. If anyone could help with this then I would happily gift them a reward fitting that information. Many thanks Tony.
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IP 26 - An oak Glasgow School sideboard designed by E.A. Taylor & made by Wylie & Lochhead with split heart to the detail to the shaped top & central glazed cupboard below flanked by open shelves with solid oak paneled back, 2 large drawers to the centre with angular cupbords to each side on 6 tapering legs with square feet. £POA.
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IP 27 - A stunning Glasgow School cabinet designed by George Logan & made by Wylie & Lochhead. A bedroom suite by George
Logan which he designed for the Wylie & Lochhead Pavilion Exhibition of 1901 also has Harebells & tiny little carved
butterflies which are almost identical, it is quite likely that this cabinet was exhibited at that exhibition.
The cabinet has a superb pierced & carved stylised butterfly to the centre back & display area below, flanked by stylised floral carved details to the upper frontal ends & 3 fantastic lead glass panels almost certainly made by Macullocks who made glass for Wylie & Lochhead depicting 3 pure white plump Doves in flight with Harebells growing from the lower section panels in sliding doors with adjustable shelves behind. Circa 1901. £POA. |
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IP 28 - Selling for a friend. Please e-mail John on john.lockett@btinternet.com
An extremely rare original 'Roxborough' design bookcase plus two books with bindings by Talwin Morris: 'Scenes of Clerical Life' and 'The Mill On The Floss' by George Eliot (Publisher: Gresham Publishing Co., London, n.d. but c.1900). An original arts and crafts style bookcase specially designed by Talwin Morris to house the 21 volumes of his Roxborough design bindings. Morris is renown for his close association with the work of The Glasgow School of Art and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The bookcase is decorated with four identical metal plates also in the Roxborough design. Includes the two titles (only) by George Eliot quarter-bound in leather in the Roxborough design. Bookcase and books in very good condition, minor scratches and wear only. Bookcase measures Height 27", Width 20", Depth 7"; books octavo size, £1295. |
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IP 29 - A set of 5 fantastic cast iron radiator covers made by The Liverpool & Macclesfield Cast Iron Co in the 1860's. These covers were originally made for The Royal Liverpool School of Music. One cover with a marble top (shown but the marble has been sold with another 1) has been fully restored, which consisted of shot blasting, priming & painting, the other 4 have been stripped & are ready to be painted to one's personal taste. Measurements without marble top Height 35", Depth 15 1/2", Width 64". £POA. There is an identical radiator cover in Sudley House Museum in Liverpool.
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IP 30 - A very rare & important 2 drawer Library table made by Marsh Jones & Cribb, designed by Charles Bevan, possibly designed for Titus Salt Juniors marital home at Basildon near Saltaire. Height 31", Width 2'1", Length 6'1". Circa late 1860's. Priced at £POA.
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IP 31 - A matching dining table to the above Library table also made by Marsh Jones & Cribb & designed by Charles Bevan, possibly designed for Titus Salt Juniors marital home at Basildon near Saltaire. width 4'1" length 6'1", Length just along the straight side before the D ends 4' 6". Circa late 1860's. £POA.
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IP 32 - TALWIN MORRIS cast iron stickstand. £POA.
(The 1st 3 pictures to the right are from the Studio) Talwin Morris has in the past been counted as the 5th member of the Glasgow Four, because of his maturity & long standing friendship with ' The Spook School '- (Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Herbert Macnair, & Margaret & Francis Macdonald). He was first to translate their ideas into commercial design & the first collector of items that they designed & produced. He came to Glasgow in 1893, a crucial time in the development of the Glasgow Style, to take up his post as director of Blackie's publishing house. He studied as an Architect & designed many items of jewellery, hand beaten metalwork & even pieces of furniture, which are very rare, but he is most famous for his incrediable Glasgow Style designs of metalwork & for Blackie book covers whom Mackintosh also designed for, but probably most important was that, 'he secured' for Macintosh the commission for the Blackie's new home in Helensborough, The Hill House.. There are only 2 known example's of a cast iron stick stand designed by Talwin Morris the other design has through cut outs to the heart centre's & slits to the sides. |
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IP - TALWIN MORRIS! .............In Mr Morris's bookcase, his panels are somewhat cramped, one does feel that his bookcase was designed first, then the panels were designed to fit into the space where they are located. The panel in the above cupboard has actually a little more freedom, & more balanced, because it is slightly larger in scale. With the evidence to the right, one would also feel that the above cupboard & panel were designed as a whole. Quite likely to have been designed before the bookcase or maybe even a collaboration between CR Mackintosh & Talwin Morris. Talwin Morris has in the past been counted as the 5th member of the Glasgow Four, because of his maturity & long standing friendship with ' The Spook School '- (Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Herbert Macnair, & Margaret & Francis Macdonald). He was first to translate their ideas into commercial design & the first collector of items that they designed & produced. He came to Glasgow in 1893, a crucial time in the development of the Glasgow Style, to take up his post as director of Blackie's publishing house. The last picture shows that this copper panel was made for this cabinet, this cabinet is of shoddy late Victorian construction in deal, made to be painted & made in a way close in line to how early Mackintosh furniture was made. £SOLD. |
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IP - A monumental stunning Gothic Revival Oak breakfront bookcase attributed to
E.W. Pugin & possibly from Scarisbrick Hall in Lancashire of superior quality with wonderful proportions, an amazing work of Art, a real hybrid in the true Gothic Revival taste & certainly a commissioned piece. The cornice with castellated mouldings & 3 glazed upper sections each with twin doors with stylised iron strap hinges & castellated iron handles with drop down ring pulls, the doors double pegged at each corner joint & when opened the inner door has a female groove all round with a male bead protruding from the carcass which when the doors are closed fits snugly into each other a quality detail to protect important books from air & atmosphere shown in the 2nd from last image, with 4 original adjustable shelves (not shown) per section all with Gilt leather dust flaps. The 3 section cupboards below with stylised linen fold carved details to each door (an almost identical detail used in The New Palace of Westminster) with corresponding metalwork & graduated flaring base. The side Linenfold carved panels to the lower ends are different to the fronts. This bookcase was designed to hold important books & I purchased it from the North of England from a dealer who had purchased around 20 years ago in Liverpool from a sale of furniture believed to have come from Scarisbrick Hall. Circa early 1870's. Height 8' 8", Length 12' 6", the top depth in the centre section is 14 1/2" & 11" deep to each side section. The base depth is 18 1/2" to the centre section & 15" deep to each side section. £SOLD.
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IP - A rare pair of C F A Voysey plant stands, the book from which this information has been sorced is :- Good Citizens Furniture, The Arts & Crafts Collection at Cheltenham Museam by Annette Carruthers & Mary Greenstead. ISBN 0 85331 650 3. Where an identical plantstand is illustrated.
Width 12" Sq Height 36". Circa 1890's. £SOLD.
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