Phoebe Anna Traquair
Phoebe Anna Traquair was a unique figure in British culture. The first significant professional woman artist in modern Scotland, she was also a key figure in the Arts and Crafts movement. A free spirit, Traquair celebrated life through image, colour and texture, taking her inspiration from Renaissance painting, the art and poetry of Blake and the music of Wagner. She produced a huge body of work, from vast, breathtaking mural decorations and sensual embroideries to exquisite illuminated manuscripts and enamels.
SOLD £78,200
The Bonskeid Cabinet
Decorated by Phoebe Anna Traquair circa 1893
In oak and green-lined fitted with eight, painted panels illustrating Edmund C. Spencer’s, “The Fairie Queene” The carved scroll pediment above a central recess containing three arched ninches and with four ring turned columns flanked by a pair of panels on sliding doors. The breakfront base with a central hinged panel door enclosing a pair of hinged pigeon holes before open horizontal shelving, above three graduated drawers with carved scallop handles and cast foliate escutheons flanked by a pair of arched doors with rose and oak leaf carved spandrels above turned pillars with foliate capitals each enclosing two fixed shelves and two pull-out shelves, the patent lever locks stamped G. Harley & Co W. Hampton the moulded base on shaped bracket supports with recessed trefoil medallions 188cm wide, 157cm high and 69cm deep.
£30,000/50,000
