Mary Jane Newill
Made by the Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts, Birmingham, United Kingdom. Executed by Mary Newill and E. E. Bloxcedge
Unique piece
Provenance
Presumably commissioned for the dining room at Top o’ the Hill, 14 Driffold, Sutton Coldfield, Birmin- gham, UK - The house was designed by architects Crouch & Butler and was the home of Edmund Butler - Claydon Auctioneers, Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire, 30th December 2021, lot 1394 - British private collection - Paul Reeves, London.
Exhibitions
Two other panels from this group, The Wandering Wood and The House of Holiness, were presented by the Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts at the 1900 Paris World Fair in the British Pavilion
Literature
The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Arts 1899-1900, pages 186 to 188 - ‘The Paris Exhibition 1900’, in The Art Journal, 1901, page 136 (for an in situ photograph of The Wandering Wood and The House of Holiness at the Paris World Fair).
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