E A Taylor for Wylie and Lochhead. A rare 'Butterfly' chair

Ernest Archibald Taylor (1874-1951) for Wylie and Lochhead . A rare 'Butterfly' chair, the high back with satinwood and mother of pearl inlaid flowerheads to the head rail and inlaid butterflies to the central back, 83cm high This model was exhibited in the Wylie and Lochhead pavilion at The Glasgow International Exhibition in 1901 and was part of the complete and very accomplished scheme running through the drawing room he designed for the exhibition which was subsequently exhibited in Budapest in 1902. See 'Glasgow 1900: Art and Design', p.153, illus. 111 and 'An exhibition catalogue to coincide with the exhibition held at The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam' 20th November 1992 - 7th February 1993, p.108, illus. 3.10.