$50,000
Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000
Auction: June 10, 2019 1:00:00 PM EDT
MADE AT KNOCKALOE CAMP, ISLE OF MAN, CIRCA 1918-1919 Oak, walnut.
H: 41 3/4, W: 90, D: 21 3/4 in.Provenance: F.M. Jones
Private Collection
Sotheby's, December 1986, Lot 263
F. Jones Collection
Donald & Eleanor Taffner
EXHIBITED:
"Charles Rennie Mackintosh", The Metropolitan Museum of Art: November 21, 1996 to February 16, 1997; the Art Institute of Chicago: March 29 to June 22, 1997; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: August 3 to October 12 1997.
LITERATURE:
Roger Billcliffe, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, pp. 300-305 (for a discussion of and illustrations for the Candida Cottage and related commissions), p. 301 (for a photograph and discussion of the present lot)
Wendy Kaplan, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, p. 367 (for cataloguing of present lot, as listed in Exhibition Checklist)
"The furniture is probably the most modern and utilitarian ever designed by Mackintosh." -Roger Billcliffe
The present lot is one of two important sideboards of this design by Mackintosh dating to 1918-19. The first, also in oak but inlaid with the casein plastic Radolith, was part of a suite of furniture and decoration by Mackintosh for E.J. Bassett-Lowke at Candida Cottage, Roade, near Northampton, England. Many of the furniture designs for Candida Cottage, including the sideboard, were replicated for Bassett-Lowke's brother-in-law F. Jones. The present lot toured the US as part of the 1996-97 Charles Rennie Mackintosh exhibition.