A PAIR OF LATE VICTORIAN ARTS AND CRAFTS ANDIRONS

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A PAIR OF LATE VICTORIAN ARTS AND CRAFTS ANDIRONS
IN THE MANNER OF M.H. BAILLIE SCOTT

Each with waved moulded circle, on a splayed support and squat arched base, with cast-iron turned arm, each with two plugged holes
7½in. (19cm.) wide; 17in. (43cm.) high; 7in. (18cm.) deep (2)

Provenance

Supplied circa 1898 under the supervision of Armitage Rigby to Cordailys, Douglas, Isle of Man

Lot Essay

Cordailys was designed circa 1898 by Armitage Rigby, a follower of Baillie Scott. A similar pair of andirons by Baillie Scott is shown in a drawing in the Building News, 23 July 1987 (J. Kornwolf, M.H. Baillie Scott and the Arts and Crafts Movement, Baltimore and London, 1972, p.165), aswell as in the Hall of another Isle of Man house (p.199)

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