ERNEST ARCHIBALD TAYLOR (1874-1951) FOR WYLIE & LOCHHEAD, GLASGOW
DESK, CIRCA 1905
£10,000
Auction: Day Two: 22 April 2021 | From 11:00
Description
oak, stained and leaded glass panels, with nickel drop handles backed with green leather
Dimensions
75cm wide, 122cm high, 50cm deep
Footnote
Provenance: Property from an Important Private Collection
Literature: Kinchin, Juliet The Wylie & Lochhead Style, The Journal of the Decorative Arts Society 1850 - the Present, No. 9, Aspects of British Design 1870 - 1930 (1985), pp. 4-16
Note: Initially apprenticed in the Glasgow shipbuilding industry, E. A. Taylor trained as an artist at the Glasgow School of Art, where he met Jessie M. King around 1898. Taylor joined the Glasgow cabinetmakers and retailers Wylie and Lochhead as trainee designer in 1893. His furniture designs for the firm brought him great acclaim with exhibitions at the 1901 Glasgow International Exhibition and, with his fiancée Jessie King, a series of stained-glass panels for the Turin International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art in 1902. Taylor went on to lecture in furniture design at Glasgow School of Art from 1903 to 1905. In 1908 he married Jessie King and moved to Manchester to manage and design for George Wragge Ltd where he produced many designs for stained glass. Between 1911 and 1914 the Taylor’s lived in Paris where they established an art school – the Shealing Atelier. This rare cabinet by Taylor combines his skills as a furniture maker and stained-glass designer and was available to buy in mahogany or, in this rarer version, in oak.