CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH (1868-1928) (ATTRIBUTED TO)
OAK DOMINO TABLE, CIRCA 1897
£1,900
Auction: 15 June 2011 at 12:00 BST
Description
the circular planked top above a lower lobed tier, linked by four curved and tapering supports, linked by a corresponding circular tier below
Dimensions
44cm diameter to top, 77cm diameter, 67cm high
Footnote
Literature:
The Studio, XI, 1897, p. 230.
Billcliffe, Roger, 'Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Complete Furniture Drawings & Interior Designs', Moffatt 2009, page 44, illus. 1897.7 & 8
Note: The design of this table appears to be an amalgam of scale drawings produced by Mackintosh for a domino table circa 1897 and held by Glasgow University, and a table photographed by the Studio magazine in the same year. The measurements of the current lot are broadly similar to the scale drawing, however there are certain differences, namely the shape of the lover tier has a more pronounced lobed shape and the pierced tear shape of the supports does not continue under the base tier. The example illustrated in the Studio of 1897 also demonstrates differences from the drawing including thicker leg supports and angled brackets under the circular top (also shared by this example). It is also not clear if the pierced tear shape continues under the base tier.
According to Billcliffe the appearance of the example in the Studio rules it out from being included in the Argyle Street scheme and no images of a domino table appear in photos of Buchanan Street. It may have been a prototype or special commission however it remains untraced.