Lot 251
ATTRIBUTED TO ERNEST ARCHIBALD TAYLOR FOR WYLIE & LOCHHEAD, GLASGOW
SCOTTISH ART NOUVEAU BRASS AND LEADED GLASS CEILING LIGHT, CIRCA 1900
Auction: 10 October 2018 at 11:00 BST
Description
ATTRIBUTED TO ERNEST ARCHIBALD TAYLOR FOR WYLIE & LOCHHEAD, GLASGOW
SCOTTISH ART NOUVEAU BRASS AND LEADED GLASS CEILING LIGHT, CIRCA 1900
the square ceiling plate with shaped outline and central domed boss suspending eight chains, the shade of corresponding shaped cube form set to each side with a stained and leaded glass panel depicting stylised flowering plants, the whole with four green glass pendant drops below
31cm across, 92cm high
Footnote
Provenance: Paul Reeves, London
Note: Initially apprenticed in the Glasgow shipbuilding industry, E.A. Taylor trained as an artist at the Glasgow School of Art, where he met Jessie M. King around 1898. He worked for Wylie & Lochhead from around this time where his furniture designs brought him great acclaim, with exhibitions at the 1901 Glasgow International Exhibition and, with his fiancée Jessie King a series of stained glass panels for the Turin International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art in 1902. This magnificent Glasgow-style light demonstrates his skills as a stained glass designer, something he was to demonstrate again when he became a full-time designer for the Salford based stained glass manufacturer George Wragge Ltd. from 1908-1911.