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Lot 1: THOMAS JECKYLL

Est: $30,000 USD - $50,000 USDSold:
Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USDecember 15, 2011

Item Overview

Description

A RARE PAIR OF "SUNFLOWER" ANDIRONS
brass
33 x 11 1/4 x 20 1/2 in. (84 x 28.6 x 52.1 cm)
circa 1876-1884
retailed by Barnard, Bishop & Barnard, Norwich, England

Artist or Maker

Literature

The Peacock Room, exh. cat., Messrs Obach's Galleries, London, 1904, n.p.
Charlotte Gere, Nineteenth-Century Design: From Pugin to Mackintosh, London, 1993, p. 160
Linda Merrill, The Peacock Room: A Cultural Biography, Washington, D.C. and New Haven, 1998, pp. 188, 190, 202-203, 254-255, 305 and 319
Susan Weber Soros and Catherine Arbuthnott, Thomas Jeckyll: Architect and Designer, 1827-1881, New Haven, 2003, pp. 14, 48, 192, 195-197, 218, 220 and 229-230

Provenance

Private Collection, New York

Auction Details

Important 20th Century Design

by
Sotheby's
December 15, 2011, 12:00 PM EST

1334 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, US