A FINE GOTHIC REVIVAL CARVED OAK AND FABRIC-LINED FOUR-PANEL SCREEN DESIGNED BY G. GILBERT SCOTT CIRCA 1870

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 USD

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Description

height 6 ft. 6 in.; width of each panel 25 1/4 in.
198.1 cm; 64.1 cm

each panel with leather-bound borders with gilt-metal nail heads, the original textile made by Templeton of Glasgow. Losses to fabric.

Provenance

Possibly from the Birkenhead Collection
Haslam & Whiteway, London
Sold in these rooms, October 21, 2005, lot 235

Literature

Paul Atterbury, ed., A. W. N. Pugin Master of Gothic Revival, Yale University Press for the Bard Graduate Center, 1995, fig. 127 (the present lot as the background)

Catalogue Note

Best known for his Gothic Revival architecture, Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811-1878), was influenced early in his career by A. W. N. Pugin. Although his architectural practice consisted mainly of ecclesiastical commissions and restoration of churches, he also designed government buildings, private houses, and, possibly most famously, the Albert Memorial (1863) and the Midland Grand Hotel at St. Pancras Station (1865-6).