Design - Day Two - 17th October 2024
Lot 463
A fine Wylie and Lochhead walnut bureau the design attributed to E A Taylor or George Logan, on
Estimate £5,000 - £10,000 | Hammer £5670
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Description
A fine Wylie and Lochhead walnut bureau the design attributed to E A Taylor or George Logan, on slender legs with carved foliate capitals and cut-out heart motif, the bureau front inlaid with marquetry and mother of pearl foliate panel, below a small cupboard, the door set with enamelled butterfly panel over green glass,
unsigned
132cm high
85cm wide
49.5cm deep
Provenance
Purchased from Chenil Galleries, London
private collection.
Literature
Elizabeth Cumming and Wendy Kaplan The Arts and Crafts Movement, Thames & Hudson, page 91 plate 70 for a photograph of George Logan's library design for the Wylie & Lochhead Pavilion at the 1901 Glasgow Internation Exhibition, reproduced.