Lot 246
AFTER CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH
PAIR OF MARSH, JONES, CRIBB & CO. MAHOGANY 'ARGYLE' TYPE CHAIRS, CIRCA 1900
Auction: 11 November 2015 at 11:00 GMT
Description
each with oval inlaid top rails above tall slatted backs and drop-in seats raised on square legs linked by stretchers, bears maker's labels MARSH, JONES, CRIBB & CO./ KENDELL & CO. (2)
Dimensions
49cm wide, 111cm high, 41cm deep
Footnote
Literature: Billcliffe, Roger, 'Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Complete Furniture Drawings & Interior Designs', Moffatt 2009, pp 61-62
Note: Billcliffe alludes to "six smaller variants" of the high backed Argyle Street tea Room chair, designed by Mackintosh for Miss Cranston in 1898, two of which bear the Marsh, Jones Cribb & Co. label. Billcliffe goes on to suggest that as the firm only existed from 1897-1904 it is likely that that they had seen the larger chairs, either in Glasgow or at the Arts & Crafts Exhibition in 1899, and amended the design to this smaller version. In this unusual mahogany variant the firm has added marquetry inlay to the oval top rails instead of the original cut out motif.