Description
A rare set of four Minton Hollins & Co two-tile panels designed by Daniel Cottier, depicting Amor, Mars, Fama and Fortuna, painted in colours, pencil marks to reverse, impressed marks, damages, 41 x 20.5cm (each panel)
Provenance
Cairndhu House, Helensburgh, dining room fireplace
Private tile collection.
Literature
Cottiers in Context - Daniel Cottier, William Leiper and Dowanhill Church, Glasgow, Historic Scotland, page 55 plate B, for comparable tile panels used to decorate a Cottier & Co cabinet (held in the Museum of Scotland Collection).
Cairndhu was built in 1871 to designs by William Leiper with the interior design of stained glass and decorative work designed by Daniel Cottier (1838-1891). these two tile panels depicting the classical figures
