Arthur Dixon, Table lamp, ca. 1896

Made by the Birmingham Guild of Handicraft

h. 19 7/8 in. (50,5 cm) - w. 13 in. (33 cm)

Impressed on base ‘B.G.H.’

COLLECTION OF THE VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

Provenance

German art market, 1990’s - Private collection, Hamburg, until 2020 - Kendzia auction, Hamburg, 21st February 2020, lot 328.

Exhibitions

One lamp was presented at the fifth Arts and Crafts Exhibition in London in 1896. The example in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum was part of the landmark exhibition International Arts and Crafts, which was held at the V&A, the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in 2005-2006, as exhibit 3.10.

Literature

Aymer Vallance, ‘The Art Movement - Artistic Metal work’, in The Magazine of Art, volume 22, November 1897 - V. Latour, ‘Kleine Nachrichten’, in Kunst und Kunsthandwerk, volume 3, number, 1900, page 48 - ‘Koloman Moser, Ver Sacrum room in the Second Secession exhibition, 1898’, in Ver Sacrum, number 2, 1898 - Karen Livingstone and Linda Parry, International Arts and Crafts, 2005, page 71.

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