Candlesticks

Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1869-1928.

Ebonised wood, one inset with mother-of- pearl, with silver bowls, one with Glasgow hallmarks for 1904-5 and maker's mark for David Hislop

12 inches (30.5cm.)

Two candlesticks of each design were made, Walter Blackie owned two and Mackintosh retained two. Each set consisted of one example of each design The pairs were, therefore, deliberately non-matching.

Provenance: C R Mackintosh; Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh; Alexander Kennedy

Bibliography

Architect-Designers from Pugin to Mackintosh. Exhibition catalogue. London: The Fine Art Society with Haslam & Whiteway Ltd., 1981. No. 61.

Billcliff, Roger. Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Complete Furniture, Furniture Designs and Interiors. 1986. No. 1904.18(b).

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