Name: Auction: JESSIE MARION KING (1875-1949) AND ERNEST ARCHIBALD TAYLOR (1874-1951) INTEREST GROUP OF PERSONAL AND DOMESTIC ITEMS
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 478 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Day One | Lots 1 to 252 | Wednesday 16th April from 10am

Day Two | Lots 253 to 490 | Thursday 17th April from 10am

Our Spring 2025 edition of Design Since 1860 took place on 16 &amp; 17 April. &nbsp;Scroll down to view the results, if you are interested in any available lots our team would be delighted to discuss any aftersales enquiries. &nbsp;&nbsp;The auction featured selected works from the late 19th century and early 20th century and encompassed the Aesthetic and Arts &amp; Crafts Movements, Art Nouveau and Art Deco as well as works which date up to the present day. &nbsp;Highlights of the sale included a group of watercolours, furniture and works of art by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, including the wonderful French period watercolour <a href="/auctions/design-since-1860-828/lot/299">‘Bouleternère’</a> which sold for £150,200 inc fees and <a href="/auctions/design-since-1860-828/lot/298">a group of silver cutlery</a> designed for Fra and Jessie Newbery which sold for a remarkable £175,200 inc fees. The auction also featured a collection of works of art and personal items belonging to Jessie Marion King and her husband, designer and artist E.A. Taylor. Another highlight was the rare and beautiful ‘St Cecilia’ tapestry circa 1888, woven at Merton Abbey by Morris &amp; Co., to designs by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and John Henry Dearle.Also in the sale is a collection of continental Art Nouveau including several rare works by Amphora, designed by Eduard Stellmacher. The sale also included an exciting selection of works by designers such as Christopher Dresser, Philip Webb, W.A.S. Benson, C.F.A. Voysey, James Herbert McNair and Sir Edwin Lutyens; Carlo Bugatti, Josef Hoffmann, Herter Brothers and many others.&nbsp;Buyer's Guide:

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[King-Taylor family recipe book]. The Practice of Cookery and Pastry by Williamson & Son 1869. 8vo, with numerous manuscript recipes laid in, including one for ‘American gingerbread’ written in the hand of Jessie M. King, another recipe apparently in another hand but with King's annotation ‘The EASY-BISCUIT à la Polly Peacham’; Collection of family photographs, approx. 40 in total, of which several depicting Jessie M. King, including a full-length portrait of JMK as a young woman, in a garden (platinum print, mounted on card), one of JMK in a classroom with pupils (albumen print, mounted on card), and others showing E. A. Taylor, Merle Taylor, etc.; Merle Taylor's childhood autograph album, including a watercolour sketch of a cottage through trees signed ‘EAT’ (her father Ernest Archibald Taylor, 1874-1951), and one unsigned but attributed to Jessie M. King;&nbsp;Typescript short story by Merle Taylor, ‘The Maister’For a complete list of photographs in this lot see the lot description on our website lyonandturnbull.com &nbsp;

GROUP OF PERSONAL AND DOMESTIC ITEMS

JESSIE MARION KING (1875-1949) AND ERNEST ARCHIBALD TAYLOR (1874-1951) INTEREST

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JESSIE MARION KING (1875-1949) AND ERNEST ARCHIBALD TAYLOR (1874-1951) INTEREST

GROUP OF PERSONAL AND DOMESTIC ITEMS

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