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Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928), an oak dining chair from the Argyle Street Tea Rooms, Glasgow, 1898-99, stained oak, with slat-back and eliptical handle, re-upholstered drop-in seat 103 x 54 x 48cm (40 x 21 x 19in) Literature: Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings and Interior Designs, Roger Billcliffe, Lutterworth Press 1979 (1st Edition), pp 48, no 1897.26. Taking Tea with Mackintosh: The Story of Miss Cranstons Tea Room, Perilla Kinchin 1998, published Pomegranate Communications Inc, plate 9, page 30. The Studio 1906 XXXIX pp31-36 Other Notes: Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928), the famous Scottish architect, designer and artist is best known particularly for his work in and around Glasgow. From 1897-1912 he was commissioned by Miss Catherine (Kate) Cranston to design four different teas room in Glasgow. Miss Cranston was the daughter of a tea merchant and strong believer in temperance. She developed the idea of "art tearooms" where people could meet to drink non- alcoholic drinks in buildings designed with a strong modern aesthetic. They quickly caught on as a place to go: Edwin Lutyens described his visit in 1898, going straight from the train to "these queer funny rooms", for a breakfast "of tea, butter, jam, toasts, baps and buns - 2 sausages, 2 eggs - all for 1/1d - so clean. Most beautiful peonies on the breakfast table". He described Miss Cranston as "a dark, busy, fat, wee body with black sparky luminous eyes". Mackintosh, together with George Walton, was commissioned by Miss Cranston to design and re-style the tearooms creating a number of different rooms within each building. Mackintosh designed the furniture in the Argyle Tearooms and it was here his trademark high back chairs were first seen. This chair, with its curved top rail was used at the tables at the end of the Luncheon Room. The bold, sturdy functionality of these chairs date them to c1897-1899. There are no existing drawings of the furniture designed for the ground floor rooms but the chairs can be seen in the contemporary photos taken in April 1897 and illustrated in the The Studio 1906 and reproduced in Roger Billcliffe Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Complete Furniture. The cross-bar design was re-used in his more famous oval back chairs which were also placed in the Argyle Luncheon Room. A similar design to this chair was subsequently used in his famous Ingram Street Tea Room with two slats rather than the three used here. Variations to this chair exist with a different shaped hand-hole; some kidney shaped and others, such as this chair, elliptical. It is thought some were commissioned by Miss Cranston as replacements for damaged chairs and not made to Mackintosh's supervision. See Christie's Important 20th Century Decorative Art & Design, 15 December 2010, Lot 320, Sold for $12,500 including premium (approx £9,500).
A Dunhill Aquarium table lighter, the lucite panels decorated with fish and aquatic foliage 8 x 10cm (3 x 4in) The lucite (perspex) panel decorated with fish underwater was created using the reverse intaglio technique. This engraving technique carves into the back of the perspex which is then hand painted to produce a "3D" effect. It was a popular technique during the 1940s and 1950s but few artists today have the knowledge and ability to produce these works making them a unique and collectable art form.
§ William Scott (British, 1913-1989) Table top still life signed lower left "W Scott" gouache 26 x 37cm (10 x 14in) Provenance: Given by William Scott to the sculptor William Redgrave (1903–86); (Bill) Redgrave and his wife Mary in St. Ives, Cornwall; sold by Mrs Mary Redgrave to the present owner's mother, and thence by descent Other Notes: William Scott was born at Greenock, Scotland and studied at Belfast College of Art and later at the Royal Academy between 1831 and 1935. His time spent in France in the late 1930s inspired him to paint still lifes which were more traditional than his table top still lifes of the 1950s, which saw him working in a more abstract manner. Whilst serving in the Army from 1942 to 1946 Scott painted watercolours of soldiers and the local landscape. Scott returned to painting in earnest in 1946, concentrating on still-lifes of pots and saucepans, eggs, fishes and bottles on a bare kitchen table - simple objects chosen for their contrasting shapes. In original frame and mount, with some browning round the mount.
A Contemporary glass topped dining table by Cattelan Italia, the rectangular top supported on an angular chrome base with variegated black marble disc, together with a set of eight Frag Zanzibar black leather and chrome dining chairs (9) 75 x 220 x 100cm (29 x 86 x 39in) 75 x 220 x 100cm (29 x 86 x 39in) Provenance: According to the vendor, this set was originally purchased from Harrods in 2008 for £9,920
*Mirror. A late 18th-century walnut dressing table mirror with brass vase finial, the rectangular glass on a single drawer base, 57cm high together with an Edwardian pottery mantel clock, with circular white enamel dial, black roman numerals steel hands, 26cm high (2)
*Table linen. A collection of assorted table linen, haberdashery, and needlework items, mostly early to mid 20th century, including table cloths, napkins, handkerchiefs, doilies and mats, an early 20th century patchwork quilt, lace trimmings, embroidery silks, etc., with examples of damask, whitework, drawn threadwork, lace and crochet, embroidery, monograms, etc., various sizes and condition (2 cartons)
A selection of Silver plated items including a sugar bowl and milk jug with applied swan handles on scrolling feet with engraved decorations,a coffe pot from James Dixon and son Sheffield of similar design, two sugar sifter spoons one with a mother of pearl handle and the other with a commemorative portrait made for the coronation in 1937 of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, a cold meat fork with repousse handle, a silver plated table crumb pan with ivorine handle, an ear/tooth pick in white metal case together with a Victorian Sewing Hem Gauge Button Hole Knife Brass with retractable blade
*Table cabinet. A late 19th-century Continental table cabinet in the Renaissance style, of architectural form inset with seventeen enamel panels to the exterior finely painted with classical scenes, four enamel columns each with brass putto with grapes or playing the cymbal's, the two doors enclosing inner enamel panels plus three drawers each inset with an enamel panel, 23cm high x 20cm wide x 18cm deep (would benefit from restoration) (1)
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