CHARLES ROBERT ASHBEE (1863-1942)

Lot 77
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ID 964871
Lot 77 | CHARLES ROBERT ASHBEE (1863-1942)
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CHARLES ROBERT ASHBEE (1863-1942)
Set of Three Panels, for the Sitting Room of Sir James Rankin's Bryngwyn Manor, Herefordshire, 1892
executed by The Guild of Handicraft, England
tooled and embossed leather with gilt and painted highlights37 1/8 in. (94.3 cm.) high, 20 in. (50.8 cm.) wide (sight)
Ashbee, C. R.




Provenance

Commissioned by The Guild of Handicraft for the Sitting Room of Sir James Rankin's Bryngwyn Manor, Wormelow Tump, Herefordshire, 1892.

Paul Reeves, London.

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above, 1994.



Literature

C. Wainwright, Architect - Designers, Pugin to Mackintosh, exh. cat., Fine Arts Society, London, 1981, p. 50.

M. Greensted, C. R. Ashbee and the Guild of Handicraft, exh. cat., Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, Cheltenham, 1981, n.p., cat. no. B2.

A. Crawford, C. R. Ashbee: Architect, Designer & Romantic Socialist, New Haven, 1985, pp. 298-300 (for a related example in Ashbee's studio at 37 Cheyne Walk).

A. Carruthers and M. Greensted, Good Citicen's Furniture: The Arts and Crafts Collections at Cheltenham, London, 1994, p. 15, fig. 6.

A. Carruthers and M. Greensted, Simplicity or Splendour, Arts and Crafts Living: Objects from the Cheltenham Collections, London, 1999, pp. 54, fig. 47, cat. no. 31.



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