27th Mar, 2014 10:00

Fine Art & Antiques

 
Lot 159
 

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A pair of Charles Rennie Mackintosh ebonised chairs designed for Miss Cranston's Willow Tearooms circa 1903, each with bowed ladder-back, strengthening bar to top rail above a re-upholstered seat on square legs united by turned stretchers, 104cm (41'') high, one chair marked 21 faintly to the corner of the underside of the seat and beneath the back rail, the other marked 82 to the seat and 63 to the rail/Literature: Billcliffe (R), Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings and Interior Designs, Guildford and London, 1979, pp. 128-129, 132 and Kaplan (W) Charles Rennie Mackintosh, London 1996, pp. 243 and 276

Sold for £11,000


 

A pair of Charles Rennie Mackintosh ebonised chairs designed for Miss Cranston's Willow Tearooms circa 1903, each with bowed ladder-back, strengthening bar to top rail above a re-upholstered seat on square legs united by turned stretchers, 104cm (41'') high, one chair marked 21 faintly to the corner of the underside of the seat and beneath the back rail, the other marked 82 to the seat and 63 to the rail/Literature: Billcliffe (R), Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings and Interior Designs, Guildford and London, 1979, pp. 128-129, 132 and Kaplan (W) Charles Rennie Mackintosh, London 1996, pp. 243 and 276

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