CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH INTEREST
WAECHTERSBACH EARTHEWARE BASIN, CIRCA 1910
Auction: 13 August 2014 at 12:00 BST
£525
Description
the design attributed to Joseph Maria Olbrich, the basin of circular form, printed blue on white with a chequered band design, printed marks DUSSELDORF/ G/ DEC. 1539/ GESCHUTZT
Dimensions
41.5cm diameter
Footnote
Literature: Billcliffe, Roger 'Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings & Interior Designs', Moffatt 2009, page 272, illus. 1916N and page 285, 1916.47 where the matching slop pail is illustrated.
Note: A washset of this design appears in contemporary photographs of the bedroom at 78 Derngate, remodelled in 1916-17 by Charles Rennie Mackintosh for W. J. Bassett-Lowke.