GREEK REVIVAL PAINTED FIRECLAY CHIMNEY POT BY ALEXANDER 'GREEK' THOMSON
CIRCA 1877
Scottish Silver & Applied Arts
Auction: 14 August 2019 at 11:00 BST
£813
Description
of cylindrical form incised and painted with Greek Revival anthemion and scrollwork banded decoration
Dimensions
40.5cm diameter, 110cm high
Footnote
Note: This chimney pot was designed by the eminent Glasgow architect Alexander 'Greek' Thomson (1817-1875) for Millbrae Crescent, Glasgow. Millbrae Crescent consists of an elegant row of two-storey terraced houses believed to have been designed by Thomson and Robert Turnbull and was completed in 1877. 'Greek' Thomson was so named because of his decision, in the mid-1850s, to adopt the Greek idiom as his only language of expression.