Lot 66
GOTHIC REVIVAL
PAIR OF OVERPAINTED AND GILDED WROUGHT IRON ELECTROLIERS, CIRCA 1890
Auction: 19 August 2013 at 12:00 BST
Description
each with central column, with radiating spokes supporting a circular corona with scrolled brackets and circular ring with floret studded decoration and four curved branches, associated frilled shades (2)
Dimensions
140cm high, 75cm diameter
Footnote
Provenance: Mount Zion Church, Quarriers Village, Renfrewshire
Note: Quarriers Village was founded as the 'Orphan Homes of Scotland' in 1876 by Glasgow shoe-maker and philanthropist William Quarrier. Quarrier had a vision of a community allowing the young people in his care to thrive, set in a countryside environment and housed in a number of grand residences under a house-mother and father. This vision was realised by a number of donations from Quarrier and his friends, who had a free hand in choosing the style that their cottage was built in. As a result the village is an unusual mix of Gothic, French, Old English, Scottish Baronial and Italian. Despite this virtually all of the buildings were the responsibility of one architect, Robert Bryden of Clarke & Bell in Glasgow, who worked free of charge on Quarrier's projects over a course of some twenty-eight years
A charity under the name of Quarriers continues the work of the former homes and is based within the village, although over time the homes and associated buildings have been converted into private housing, and some expansion has taken place with new residential development. Quarriers is a registered charity and still functions to help disadvantaged young people, carers and adults with disabilities in the United Kingdom and beyond.