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Design for a Clock Face
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Design for a Clock Face

BY CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH FOR W. J. BASSETT-LOWKE, ESQ., 1917

Details
Design for a Clock Face
By Charles Rennie Mackintosh for W. J. Bassett-Lowke, Esq., 1917
Pencil and watercolour on paper, partially squared in pencil
9 7/8in. x 7¾in. (25cm. x 19.5cm.)
Inscribed Drawing of face showing erinoid inlay/blue green & white and figures painted black on white erinoid; with inscription dble thick margins as example/fr. as example./173/163/J.H. from J. Bassett-Lowke
Provenance
Dr. Thomas Howarth, Toronto
Christie's London, 17th February 1994, Lot 125
Literature
Roger Billcliffe, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings and Interior Designs, New York, 1979, pp. 229 & 230, Cat. No. D1917.3
Exhibited
Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Works from the Collection of Professor Thomas Howarth, Toronto, 1967, Cat. No. 73
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Architect and Designer from the Collection of Dr. Thomas Howarth, Washington, 1985, Cat. No. 25
Spring'94, The Fine Art Society, London, Cat. No. 58
Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style, Travelling Exhibition in Japan, 15th September 2000 - 18th February 2001, p. 132, Cat. No. 132
Special notice
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Lot Essay

A full size drawing for the face of a clock designed in 1917 for W. J. Bassett-Lowke. The inscriptions indicate Mackintosh's use of the plastic erinoid as one of the inlaid materials. The clock is now in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, USA, 'Sidney and Frances Lewis Collection'.

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