DOI Heft:
No. 285 (December 1916)
DOI Artikel:Whitley, William Thomas: Arts and crafts at the Royal Academy, [2]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.24575#0140
The Arts and Crafts Exhibition
WRITING CABINET IN ENGLISH WALNUT
DESIGNED BY ERNEST W. GIMSON ; EXECUTED BY R. COBB
also displayed in Domus No. 2, as well as numbers
of designs, drawings, bookplates, book illustrations
and cartoons.
The four apsidal chapels in the Central Hall at
Burlington House were designed by Mr. Henry
Wilson, Mr.. Louis Davis, Mr. Reginald Hallward
and Mr. Charles S. Spooner. The most uncommon
of them was that by Mr. Hallward, in which a
painted altar-piece, representing the Mother of
Humanity with the remnant of her children escap-
ing from the bondage of outworn beliefs, was
backed by a screen of black lacquer. The silver
altar-cross, candlesticks and vases for the High
Altar at Liverpool Cathedral, designed by Mr. W.
Bainbridge Reynolds in collaboration with Mr.
Gilbert Scott, were shown in the Central Hall
(rechristened " Ecclesiastic" by the Arts and
Crafts Society), and close by in the adjoining
Municipal Hall was the altar designed by Miss
Jessie Bayes and illustrated last month in the
first article on the exhibition. This altar, the
most ambitious and probably the most successful
of this artist's works, is carried out in a rich
scheme of blue and gold, with curtains of blue
and purple shot with gold that add to the general
harmony. The triptych represents a vision of nine
angels supporting the mystic chalice, and the
chalice is repeated in the centre of the frontal,
where the figures typify the Four Elements.
Some good pottery was to be seen in the
Municipal Hall, and interesting glass by Mr. Harry
J. Powell and Miss Nelia Casella. A fine case of
domestic pottery was contributed by Mr. and
Mrs. Alfred Powell, and a group of lustre ware by
Sir Edward Elton. The Pilkington Tile and Pot-
tery Company was well represented here, and the
work of Mr. W. Howson Taylor, Mr. and Mrs.
Phoebe Stabler, Mr. Thackeray Turner, Mr. P. H.
Tunnicliff, Messrs. Alfred and Henry Hopkins,
Miss Frances E. Richards, and others ; all helped
to give interest to the section. W. T. Whitley.
[In a later number we hope to give a few further
illustrations of objects which could not be photo-
graphed to advantage in the galleries while the
exhibition was open.—Editor.]
MAHOGANY CABINET WITH SILVER HANDLES
DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY ERNEST W. GIMSONf
(Lent by J. Henry Thomas, Esq.)
WRITING CABINET IN ENGLISH WALNUT
DESIGNED BY ERNEST W. GIMSON ; EXECUTED BY R. COBB
also displayed in Domus No. 2, as well as numbers
of designs, drawings, bookplates, book illustrations
and cartoons.
The four apsidal chapels in the Central Hall at
Burlington House were designed by Mr. Henry
Wilson, Mr.. Louis Davis, Mr. Reginald Hallward
and Mr. Charles S. Spooner. The most uncommon
of them was that by Mr. Hallward, in which a
painted altar-piece, representing the Mother of
Humanity with the remnant of her children escap-
ing from the bondage of outworn beliefs, was
backed by a screen of black lacquer. The silver
altar-cross, candlesticks and vases for the High
Altar at Liverpool Cathedral, designed by Mr. W.
Bainbridge Reynolds in collaboration with Mr.
Gilbert Scott, were shown in the Central Hall
(rechristened " Ecclesiastic" by the Arts and
Crafts Society), and close by in the adjoining
Municipal Hall was the altar designed by Miss
Jessie Bayes and illustrated last month in the
first article on the exhibition. This altar, the
most ambitious and probably the most successful
of this artist's works, is carried out in a rich
scheme of blue and gold, with curtains of blue
and purple shot with gold that add to the general
harmony. The triptych represents a vision of nine
angels supporting the mystic chalice, and the
chalice is repeated in the centre of the frontal,
where the figures typify the Four Elements.
Some good pottery was to be seen in the
Municipal Hall, and interesting glass by Mr. Harry
J. Powell and Miss Nelia Casella. A fine case of
domestic pottery was contributed by Mr. and
Mrs. Alfred Powell, and a group of lustre ware by
Sir Edward Elton. The Pilkington Tile and Pot-
tery Company was well represented here, and the
work of Mr. W. Howson Taylor, Mr. and Mrs.
Phoebe Stabler, Mr. Thackeray Turner, Mr. P. H.
Tunnicliff, Messrs. Alfred and Henry Hopkins,
Miss Frances E. Richards, and others ; all helped
to give interest to the section. W. T. Whitley.
[In a later number we hope to give a few further
illustrations of objects which could not be photo-
graphed to advantage in the galleries while the
exhibition was open.—Editor.]
MAHOGANY CABINET WITH SILVER HANDLES
DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY ERNEST W. GIMSONf
(Lent by J. Henry Thomas, Esq.)