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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Ernest Archibald Taylor, ‘Butterfly’ chair, 1901
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Ernest Archibald Taylor, ‘Butterfly’ chair, 1901
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Ernest Archibald Taylor

‘Butterfly’ chair, 1901
Maple, green boxwood inlay, mother-of-pearl inlay, original wool upholstery
Made by Wylie and Lochhead
h. 44 1/2 in. (113 cm) - w. 17 1/4 in. (43,8 cm) - d. 17 1/2 in. (44,5 cm)
Under side impressed with ‘3’ and ‘08’, obscured with remnant of an old paper label

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PRIVATE COLLECTION
PRIVATE COLLECTION

Provenance

Designed for the Wylie and Lochhead room at the 1901 Glasgow International Exhibition, then untraced Paul Reeves, London, 1990’s - Private collection, Belgium, acquired from the above, until 2017.

Exhibitions

Glasgow International Exhibition, Kelvingrove Park, 2nd May - 4th November 1901

Exhibition of British Arts and Crafts, Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, September to November 1902.

Literature

Norman Garstin, ‘Glasgow International Exhibition (PartII)’, in The International Studio, volume 14, August 1901, page 171 (for the armchair version exhibited by Wylie & Lochhead) - J. Taylor, ‘A Glasgow Artist and Designer : E.A. Taylor,’ in The International Studio, volume 24, December 1904, page 219 - Gerald and Celia Larner, ‘The Glasgow Style’, 1979, plate 80 (for similar examples) - Juliet Kinchin, ‘The Wylie and Lochhead Style’, in Journal of the Decorative Arts Society, n°9, 1985, plate 8, page 2 (for the armchair exhibited by Wylie & Lochhead) - Elizabeth Cumming, ‘Glasgow 1900 : Art and Design’, 1992, page 111 (for the example in the collection of the Glasgow Museums)

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