CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH (1868-1928)

DRESSER FROM DUNGLASS CASTLE, BOWLING, 1900

Details

CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH (1868-1928)
DRESSER FROM DUNGLASS CASTLE, BOWLING, 1900
oak, white painted, with brass drop handles and adjustable mirror
60 in. (142 cm.) high; 55 7/8 in. (142 cm.) wide; 18¼ in. (46.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Charles Macdonald, Dunglass Castle, Bowling
Thence by descent.

Literature

R. Billcliffe, Charles Rennie Mackintosh - The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings & Interior Designs, New York, 1979, p. 85, pls D1900.45 & 46 (design drawings illustrated)

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Lot Essay

Designed for Dunglass Castle, Bowling, near Glasgow, the family home of Margaret and Frances Macdonald. Mackintosh made a number of alterations to rooms within the house in the summer of 1900 as well as designing a number of pieces of furniture. Most of these were for bedrooms and included a bed, wardrobe and mirror, now lost, and two white pieces - this dressing table and an accompanying wash-stand. The wash-stand realised 69,000 GBP in Designed by Architects, Christie's London, 2 November 2002, lot 15.

Christie's wishes to thank Roger Billcliffe for assistance in cataloguing this lot.

Hunterian Museum & Art Gallery, University of Glasgow.

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