Set of Three Panels, for the Sitting Room of Sir James Rankin's Bryngwyn Manor, Herefordshire, 1892

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CHARLES ROBERT ASHBEE (1863-1942)
Set of Three Panels, for the Sitting Room of Sir James Rankin's Bryngwyn Manor, Herefordshire, 1892
executed by The Guild of Handicraft, England
tooled and embossed leather with gilt and painted highlights
37 1/8 in. (94.3 cm.) high, 20 in. (50.8 cm.) wide (sight)

Provenance

Commissioned by The Guild of Handicraft for the Sitting Room of Sir James Rankin's Bryngwyn Manor, Wormelow Tump, Herefordshire, 1892.
Paul Reeves, London.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above, 1994.

Literature

C. Wainwright, Architect - Designers, Pugin to Mackintosh, exh. cat., Fine Arts Society, London, 1981, p. 50.
M. Greensted, C. R. Ashbee and the Guild of Handicraft, exh. cat., Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, Cheltenham, 1981, n.p., cat. no. B2.
A. Crawford, C. R. Ashbee: Architect, Designer & Romantic Socialist, New Haven, 1985, pp. 298-300 (for a related example in Ashbee's studio at 37 Cheyne Walk).
A. Carruthers and M. Greensted, Good Citicen's Furniture: The Arts and Crafts Collections at Cheltenham, London, 1994, p. 15, fig. 6.
A. Carruthers and M. Greensted, Simplicity or Splendour, Arts and Crafts Living: Objects from the Cheltenham Collections, London, 1999, pp. 54, fig. 47, cat. no. 31.

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Lot Essay

In 1892, The Guild of Handicraft designed the interior of Sir James Rankin's Bryngwyn Manor and crafted twenty tooled and embossed leather panels with highlights in gilding and red and grey paint. The present three panels are of the same design depicting a stylized plant form, possibly a pomegranate. Other panels were of the Guild's favored emblems such as the pink carnation and the 'Craft of the Guild', a galleon under sail. Another panel from this commission can be found in the permanent collection of The Wilson Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum (obj. no. 1982.1216).

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