20th Century Design - 21st October 2015
Lot 509
A large Bromsgrove Guild zinc alloy frieze panel designed by Walter Gilbert for Derry & Toms...
Estimate £2,000 - £4,000 | Hammer £6400
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Description
A large Bromsgrove Guild zinc alloy frieze panel designed by Walter Gilbert for Derry & Toms department store, 1933, cast in low relief with leaping deer and flying birds before stylised flowers and foliage flanking a central waterfall motif unsigned 182cm long, 43cm high.
Literature
Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton and Ghislaine Wood, Art Deco 1910-1930 Victoria & Albert Museum exhibition catalogue 2003, V&A Publications, page 16 catalogue 1.6, for a comparable example.
Catalogue Notes
Derry & Toms department store in Kensington London was designed by George Bernard and built between 1929 and 1931.