Lot 203
CLEMENT HEATON (1861-1940)
ARTS & CRAFTS RECTANGULAR PLAQUE, DATED 1898
Auction: Day One: 21 April 2021 | From 11:00
Description
copper cloisonné enamel, within an oak frame, stamped mark to base N134B/ CLEMENT HEATON/ ET CO./ NEUCHATEL/ 1898
Dimensions
45cm x 35.5cm
Footnote
Note: Clement Heaton, an early member of A.H. Mackmurdo’s Century Guild, set up his company ‘Heatons Cloisonné-Mosaic Ltd’ at 6 Berners Street, London in 1887, a year after selling his share in his father’s lucrative stained glass business Heaton, Butler & Bayne for £4,800. He patented his enamelling technique in 1886, inspired by medieval techniques which precluded the firing process, and which instead used coloured cements: a mixture of resin, beeswax, sulphur marble dust and coloured pigments. Hardening over time, these cements could be polished to give the soft matt finish characteristic of Heaton’s work and seen in the present example.