Lot 47
SCOTTISH SCHOOL
ARTS & CRAFTS OAK OVERMANTEL, DATED 1899
Decorative Arts: Design since 1860
Auction: 25 October 2017 at 11:00 BST
Description
carved by George Scott Lamb, the six central panels crisply carved with trees and emblematic plants above the inscription OH THE OAK THE ASH AND THE BONNIE IVY TREE/THEY FLOURISH BEST AT HAME IN THE NORTH COUNTRIE, the cornice dated on a banner 1899, the ash tree panel with two 'padlocks' one inscribed GSL/AL the other with the date 1898
Dimensions
201cm wide, 132cm high
Footnote
Provenance: George Scott Lamb and by descent
Note: The shackled initials are those of George Scott Lamb (1843-1933) and his sister Annabella (1846-1932), the children of David Lamb, JP (1797-1874) and his wife Ann, nee Brydon (1803-1882). The Lambs were prosperous textile manufacturers who lived at The Latch, a large Jacobean style Victorian stone house in Brechin. George Scott Lamb carved this overmantel as a tribute to his close bond with his sister and they continued to live together in the house until their deaths. George Lamb left an estate of £64,000, one of his executors was Harold Bowman Gilroy of Fingask Castle, and the other was David Lamb, a nephew who by then had moved into The Latch.