ENGLISH SCHOOL: JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER INTEREST AESTHETIC MOVEMENT ANGLO-JAPANESE ebonised wood with four bands of opposed adjustable bookshelves, with painted gilt embellishments, the ends composed of incised and applied panels, bears a label to interior(115cm long, 142.5cm high, 45.5cm deep)Footnote: Provenance: Theodore Watts-Dunton and Algernon Charles Swinburne, ‘The Pines’, Putney, circa 1880 David Croal Thomson Stanley J. Seeger Sotheby’s Olympia, Outtakes from the Collection of Stanley J. Seeger, 13th December 2002, Lot 211 From Castle of Park, Aberdeenshire Literature: Douglas, James Theodore Watts Dunton: Poet Novelist Critic, Hodder & Stoughton, 1904, pp. 266267. The bookcase in this lot is illustrated in one of the rooms at ‘The Pines’ on page 266. Note: This bookcase stood in the study of ‘The Pines’, a large Victorian villa in Putney, shared by the poet, playwright, novelist, and critic Algernon Swinburne (1837-1909) and his companion, the poet and critic Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832-1914). A label affixed to the interior of this bookcase reads: 'These two bookcases which for thirty years were in Swinburne's study at The Pines are of a special interest. They were designed and executed by Whistler at the conclusion of the settlement of the quarrel of Leyland over the Peacock Room. Watts-Dunton acted as solicitor in the affair & Whistler gave one each of the bookcases to the Housemates at The Pines. Both however find themselves in the study of the Poet. Whistler painted the insects and fr** etc himself'. The bookcase, made up with Japanese lacquered panel ends, can be seen in situ at ‘The Pines’ in a photograph of circa 1904 and later gilt embellishments can also be made out on one of the end panels. The author of the note is unknown but may have been a subsequent owner. The ‘pair’ of bookcases may allude to the fact that the bookcase is double-sided. Another piece of lacquer furniture in the room was a gift from the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), a friend of Watts-Dunton and it seems that quite several pieces of furniture at ‘The Pines’ were a gift of the artist. “Mr. Watts-Dunton's allusion to the Rossetti mementoes requires a word of explanation. Rossetti, it seems, was very fond of surprising his friends by un-expected tokens of generosity. I have heard Mr. Watts-Dunton say that during the week when he was moving into ' The Pines,' he spent as usual Wednesday night at 16 Cheyne Walk, and he and Rossetti sat talking into the small hours. Next morning after breakfast he strolled across to Whistler's house to have a talk with the ever-interesting painter, and this resulted in his getting home two hours later than usual. On reaching the new house he saw a waggon standing in front of it. He did not understand this, for the furniture from the previous residence had been all removed. He went up to the waggon and was surprised to find it full of furniture of a choice kind. But there was no need for him to give much time to an examination of the furniture, for he found he was familiar with every piece of it. It had come straight from Rossetti's house, having been secretly packed and sent off by Dunn on the previous day. Some of the choicest things at “The Pines” came in this way. Not a word had Rossetti said about this generous little trick on the night before. The superb Chinese cabinet, a photograph of which appears in this book, belonged to Rossetti.”
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ATTRIBUTED TO STANLEY WEBB DAVIES ARTS & CRAFTS BOOKCASE/BEDSIDE CABINET, CIRCA 1928 oak, with two open shelves(49.5cm wide, 72cm high, 35.5cm deep)Footnote: Provenance: Edwin and Maud Scott-Nicholson, Barn Close, near Carlisle and by descent to the present owner Literature: Whittaker, Esmé On the Border: Barn Close and the evolution of the Arts & Crafts interior, 1902-1931 The Decorative Arts Society, Journal 42, 2018, pp.90-108 Note: Barn Close was designed by Norman Evill (1873-1958) in 1902 for Edwin and Maud Scott-Nicholson. Edwin Scott-Nicholson was an architect turned industrialist. Born Edwin Nicholson, he had trained in the Arts and Crafts tradition, working as an assistant to Robert Weir Schultz in London, but gave up his architectural practice when he married the daughter of Sir Benjamin Scott and joined the rapidly expanding firm, Hudson Scott and Sons Ltd. The house evolved to reflect the multi-layered taste of its owners, with their allegiance to the Design and Industries Association (D.I.A.), founded in 1915 and of which Edwin was an active supporter. He was encouraged to join by his neighbour James Morton and friend and fellow member Sir Robert Lorimer, who had been an important member from the start. Barn Close was built according to Arts and Crafts principles, using local materials and with decorative details by leading craftsmen such as William De Morgan and George Percy Bankart. Furniture in the house included work by Ambrose Heal, Gordon Russell and Ernest Gimson as well as furniture designed by Edwin himself.
EDWARD WILLIAM GODWIN (1833-1886), PROBABLY FOR WILLIAM WATT HANGING WALL CABINET, CIRCA 1870 ebonised wood, cloisonné panels, mirrored glass(106cm wide, 65.5cm high, 21.5cm deep)Footnote: Literature: Soros, Susan The Secular Furniture of E. W. Godwin, Yale 1999, p. 200, no. 320-b, where this cabinet is illustrated. Provenance: Paul Reeves, London Property from an Important Private Collection Note: William Watt (1834-1885) established his upholstery business in 1857; it appears in the directories as William Watt & Co., art furniture manufacturers, 21 Grafton Street, London in 1860. The firm produced and sold some of the finest furniture of the Aesthetic Movement, including cabinets designed by Edward William Godwin like the present example. The cabinet is typical of the Anglo-Japanese style associated with Godwin’s designs. He often incorporated real Japanese artefacts into his work, shopping regularly in the 1870s at Liberty’s East Indian Art Warehouse on Regent Street, which stocked such items. This is possibly where the Japanese cloisonné enamel panels on the cabinet doors came from.
ERNEST ARCHIBALD TAYLOR (1874-1951) FOR WYLIE & LOCHHEAD, GLASGOW DESK, CIRCA 1905 oak, stained and leaded glass panels, with nickel drop handles backed with green leather(75cm wide, 122cm high, 50cm deep)Footnote: Provenance: Property from an Important Private Collection Literature: Kinchin, Juliet The Wylie & Lochhead Style, The Journal of the Decorative Arts Society 1850 - the Present, No. 9, Aspects of British Design 1870 - 1930 (1985), pp. 4-16 Note: Initially apprenticed in the Glasgow shipbuilding industry, E. A. Taylor trained as an artist at the Glasgow School of Art, where he met Jessie M. King around 1898. Taylor joined the Glasgow cabinetmakers and retailers Wylie and Lochhead as trainee designer in 1893. His furniture designs for the firm brought him great acclaim with exhibitions at the 1901 Glasgow International Exhibition and, with his fiancée Jessie King, a series of stained-glass panels for the Turin International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art in 1902. Taylor went on to lecture in furniture design at Glasgow School of Art from 1903 to 1905. In 1908 he married Jessie King and moved to Manchester to manage and design for George Wragge Ltd where he produced many designs for stained glass. Between 1911 and 1914 the Taylor’s lived in Paris where they established an art school – the Shealing Atelier. This rare cabinet by Taylor combines his skills as a furniture maker and stained-glass designer and was available to buy in mahogany or, in this rarer version, in oak.
Y GLASGOW SCHOOL ART NOUVEAU CABINET, CIRCA 1910 stained oak, with glazed and leaded green glass and abalone shell panels(137cm wide, 137cm high, 47cm deep)Footnote: Note: This cabinet belonged to Mrs J. Blewes of Charing Cross in Glasgow. Mrs Blewes was the manageress at one of Miss Cranston’s Tearooms in the late 1950s. Note: Please be aware that this lot contains material which may be subject to import/export restrictions, especially outside the EU, due to CITES regulations. Please note it is the buyer's sole responsibility to obtain any relevant export or import licence. For more information visit http://www.defra.gov.uk/ahvla-en/imports-exports/cites/
TALWIN MORRIS (1865-1911) LARGE COLLECTION OF GLASGOW SCHOOL ART NOUVEAU BOOK BINDINGS to include pub. Gresham Publishing Company, London, MODERN POWER GENERATIONS, Vols. 1-2, MODERN CARPENTER, JOINER AND CABINET MAKER, Vols. 1-8, THE WORLD OF TODAY, Vols. 1-6, WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES, Vols. 1-4, THE NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS, Vols. 1-2, THE RED LETTER SHAKESPEARE, 4 volumes; pub. Blackie & Son Ltd, London and Glasgow, PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF MODERN HOUSE CONSTRUCTION, Vols. 1-6, DAVID COPPERFIELD (3 copies), JOHN HALIFAX, WESTWARD HO! (2 copies), THE UNIVERSE OF THE INFINITELY GREAT AND THE INFINITELY LITTLE (12th edition), BLACKIE'S LIBRARY OF FAMOUS BOOKS, 6 volumes, TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS, (3 copies), LIFE OF NELSON (3 copies), LAMB'S TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE (2 copies), GRIMM'S TALES (2 copies), THE HEROES, UNGAVA, and BLACKIE'S SHAKESPEARE PLAYS, 8 volumes
A Study for the 'Bird's-Nesters', circa 1874 with artist's studio stamp in brown ink lower right 'J.F.M' (Lugt: 1460) black crayon on paper 27 x 16.5cm sight size; 44.5 x 33cm framedFootnote: Provenance: [By repute: The Leicester Galleries] From the collection of the art critic David Thompson (1929-2019) and Freda Dowie (1928-2019) The present work is a study for the central figure in Millet's 'Bird's-Nesters', one of his last works painted right at the end of his life, now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It depicts a scene from the artist's childhood whilst growing up on the Contentin coast of Normandy. He would go at night with other peasants to hunt the flocks of wild pigeons that migrated across the Channel. When the birds settled in trees at night, the peasants blinded them with light from torches and then clubbed hundreds to death. For peasants living a hard existence, this communal hunt was one of the few sources of meat in an otherwise limited diet. Millet worked out the positions of the figures in numerous small pen and ink sketches, as well as in pencil and crayon, known examples of which are in the Louvre Cabinet des Dessins and in the Indianapolis Museum of Art. A much larger charcoal underdrawing on canvas of the final composition was sold at Sotheby's New York on 15th November 2017, lot 129, for $150,000.Condition report: Slight toning and creasing to the paper. A tear left of the figure's right elbow along the left margin. This area is also discoloured. Light staining and discolouration in top corners. A small circular stain and two pinholes visible left of the figure's right hand. Little dirt under glass. Examined out of frame but not outside the glass.
each surmounted by a Verde Antico marble top above a pair of inlaid cabinet doors, one interior fitted with a full-length pull-out linen drawer, the other fitted with an open side compartment with a shelf and smaller linen drawer, the spreading sides with inlaid square framed panels, on cabriole legs 94 x 142 x 63cmFootnote: Provenance : By repute, Palazzo Rucelai, Florence Purchased by present vendor from Antoine Cheneviere, London, 2007 Private collection, Kensington, London Literature: Alvar Gonzalez Palacios, « Il patrimonio artistico del Quirinale, I Mobili Italiani », Milan, 1996 Compare with a similar pair of commodes but with drawers, dated 1775 and illustrated, inv. No. DP2277, entry 27Condition report: The interiors of both commodes are adapted and later re-fitted with linen drawers (most probably in the 20th century). The carcasses and doors have traces of repairs. Dove-tailing repairs to the reverse of the doors. Minor losses of veneer in areas, repairs to cracks to the back and sides. One commode with restored cracks running the length of both sides. The back left side of one commode with a minor split running from the top of the carcass to the top of that back leg, making that side of the commode very slightly loose. The marble tops are veneered and have traces of old repairs. Chips and cracks in areas, especially to the edges and backs as would be expected. These commodes remain however overall, in good condition.
Y GABRIEL VIARDOT (1830-1906) FRENCH 'JAPONISME' FOLIO STAND, LATE 19TH CENTURY rosewood, with one hinged and one fixed side with relief carved panel, branded facsimile signature G. VIARDOT to the inside leg(77cm wide, 116cm high, 38cm deep)Footnote: Note: This Asian-inspired folio stand was created as part of the vogue for collecting Japanese prints that swept France (and elsewhere in the West) during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. As is well known, Japan exerted considerable influence on the European avant-garde at this period, both on painters and designers of decorative arts. The present stand would likely have been a special commission for a refined amateur. Viardot was a successful Parisian cabinet-maker whose Asian-inspired, carved and often gilt-metal-mounted furniture inspired many followers. He exhibited at World’s fairs between 1867 and 1900. Note: Please be aware that this lot contains material which may be subject to import/export restrictions, especially outside the EU, due to CITES regulations. Please note it is the buyer's sole responsibility to obtain any relevant export or import licence. For more information visit http://www.defra.gov.uk/ahvla-en/imports-exports/cites/
Y HOWARD & SONS, LONDON AESTHETIC MOVEMENT SIDE CABINET, CIRCA 1875 rosewood, brass, lacquer and two ivory-inlaid drawer fronts, single drawer below with metal handle, stamped maker's mark HOWARD & SONS/ BERNERS ST(65.5cm wide, 149cm high, 40.5m deep)Footnote: Note: Howard & Sons (1820-1947) were founded by John Howard in 1820 as a ‘Cabinet Manufacturer’, opening an upholstery workshop and showroom in 1832. They exhibited widely, from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the Paris Exhibition of 1900 where they won one silver and two gold medals. Commissions included a bookcase designed by C.F. Hayward for John Jones, circa 1862, now in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum; sentry boxes at St. James' Palace; the ballroom floor of the Savoy Hotel; and twenty-four pieces of furniture in the Royal Collection, as well as numerous pieces in the private collection of HM The Queen at Sandringham and Balmoral. This cabinet incorporates several Oriental elements, including drawer fronts made of Meiji lacquered ivory panels of samurai, an early Cinnabar lacquer panel as the cupboard front, and a drawer handle and key adapted from Japanese sword fittings. Note: Please be aware that this lot contains material which may be subject to import/export restrictions, especially outside the EU, due to CITES regulations. Please note it is the buyer's sole responsibility to obtain any relevant export or import licence. For more information visit http://www.defra.gov.uk/ahvla-en/imports-exports/cites/
A 19thC French rustic walnut cabinet, the top with a moulded cornice above a heart motif carved to the frieze with two panelled doors, each with lozenge motifs enclosing two shelves, the base with two frieze drawers above two further panelled doors on block feet, (AF and incomplete), 191cm high, 110cm wide.
Various decorative wall plates 19thC and others, a comport top hand painted with flowers with a pink and highlighted border, 24cm wide, a decorative cabinet plate hand painted with flowers with a gilt highlighted border possibly Coalport, circa 1835, various other cabinet plates, Coalport limited edition plate, etc. (a quantity)
A collection of 19thC and other porcelain and effects, a Coalbrookdale style basket on three feet, hand painted with a scene of cottage with entwined handle, 16cm high, unmarked, an early 19thC plate, probably Coalport, with peach moulded border, cabinet cups, saucers, plates, dish with double cross sword marks, etc., and a large 19thC porcelain cup comport. (a quantity, AF)
Various cabinet cups and saucers, an unusual 19thC Richard Briggs Company of Boston teacup and saucer, transfer printed in blue with figure and goat before buildings, the saucer, 15cm diameter, various other cabinet cups, saucers, Royal Worcester coffee can and saucer, shaped Mikado Royal Crown Derby pin dish, other cabinet cups, saucers, etc. (a quantity)
Various 19thC porcelain and effects, an urn vase in Imari colours with gilt highlight, 20cm high, various cabinet plates, Grainger Worcester decorated with flowers with gilt highlights another hand painted with flowers with a coat of arms to the centre, other Coalport style, other summer flowers, one with Union border, etc. (a quantity)
Various collectors plates etc., one marked 24 karat gold or floral form inset with flowers, 24cm wide, a Klimt Goebel dish, Limoges style and other cabinet plates, wall plates, etc., and further teacups, saucers, cabinet plates, a Cauldon Parian China Arcadian crested model of the Queen's dolls house, other miniature china and effects, etc., (a quantity).
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