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THOMAS JECKYLL (1827-1881)
Pair of Rare and Important 'Sunflower' Andirons, circa 1878-1884
manufactured by Barnard, Bishop and Barnards, Norwich, Norfolk, England
polished brass, patinated wrought-iron, wrought-iron
(one andiron) 33 5/8 in. (85.5 cm.) high, 19 1/2 in. (49.5 cm.) wide, 11 1/4 in. (28 cm.) deep
(the other) 34 in. (86.4 cm.) high, 20 in. (50.8 cm.) wide, 11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm.) deep
one impressed F. I & Co. No. 2. [illegible]
Provenance
Margot Johnson, New York.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above, 1996.
Literature
W. Smith, The Masterpieces of the Centennial International Exhibition, Volume II: The Industrial Art, Philadelphia, 1875, p. 403 (for a related 'Sunflower' railing at the 1876 Centennial International Exhibition).
"The Paris Universal Exhibition," pt. 6, Magazine of Art I, 1878, p. 167 (for an illustration of this design), 188 (for a reference to this illustration).
G. William Sheldon, Artistic Houses, vol. 1, pt. 1, New York, 1883, pp. 25-34 (for a discussion of David L. Einstein's house), pl. 19 (for a period photograph of Einstein's library).
P. Ferriday, "Peacock Room," Architectural Review, no. 125, June 1959, pp. 411-412.
J. D. McCabe, The Illustrated History of the Centennial Exhibition, 1876, reprint, Philadelphia, 1975, p. 367 (for a discussion of the related Barnard, Bishop & Barnard pavilion at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876).
In Pursuit of Beauty, Americans and the Aesthetic Movement, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1986, pp. 113 (for a period photograph of David L. Einstein's Library, circa 1883), 122, ill. 4.10 (for a period photograph of the Peacock Room designed by Thomas Jeckyll and James Abbott McNeill Whistler for Frederick Richards Leyland, London, 1892); 133; 284, ill. 8.29; 285, ill. 8.20 (for a period illustration of the related 'Sunflower' Railing for the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelpha, 1875).
C. Gere and M. Whiteway, Nineteenth-Century Design; From Pugin to Mackintosh, London, 1993, p. 160, pl. 198 (similar design illustrated).
W. Moonan, "Quirky Victorian Gets His Due," The New York Times, New York, 25 July 2003, Antiques Section, n.p. (for a discussion of Jeckyll and his sunflower motif).
S. Weber Soros and C. Arbuthnott, Thomas Jeckyll Architect and Designer, 1827-1881, exh. cat., The Bard Graduate Center, Yale, 2003, pp. 14, fig. 1-3 (for a period photograph of the ‘Peacock Room’); 15, fig. 1-6 (for a period photograph of Jeckyll’s sunflower design on a display board at the Norwisch Industries Festival Exhibition, 1951); 16, figs. 1-7 (for a period photograph of Jeckyll’s Pavilion at the Centennial Exhibition) and 1-8 (for a design for the bracket of this pavilion); 17, fig. 1-10 (for this design illustrated on the cover of The Aesthetic Movement: 1869-1890, an exhibition held at the Camden Arts Centre, London, in 1973); 48, fig. 2-47 (for a drawing of the fireplace at Greyfriars, Norwich depicting Jeckyll’s ‘Sunflower’ andirons, 1883); 192, fig. 5-61 (for a period photograph of the ‘Peacock Room’); 195, fig. 5-70 (for a photograph of the ‘Peacock Room’ at Freer Gallery in the 1990s); 196, fig. 5-71 (for a period photograph of the ‘Peacock Room’); 197, fig. 5-75 (for a photograph of the ‘Peacock Room’ at Freer Gallery in the 1990s); 200, fig. 6-1 (for a period photograph of the Pavilion at the Centennial Exhibition); 220, fig. 6-52 (for a period photograph of the Barnard, Bishop and Barnards stand at the Paris Exposition Universelle, 1878); 225, fig. 6-66 (for a Sunflower from the railing of the pavilion at the Centennial Exhibition, 1876); 227, fig. 6-73 (for a period photograph of the pavilion from the Centennial Exhibition, 1876); 228 (for period photographs of the pavilion at the Centennial Exhibition); 229, fig. 6-77 (for a period photograph of this design, 1876) and figs. 6-78 and 6-79 (for period advertisements of this design); 230, fig. 6-80 (for a period photograph of David L. Einstein’s house, New York, 1880s) and fig. 6-81 (for the pair of andirons in the Birkenhead Collection)
W. Moonan, "A Movement That Brightened Victorian Lives," The New York Times, New York, 18 January 2008, Antiques Section, n.p.
J. T. Busch and C. L. Futter, Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs, 1851-1939, exh. cat., Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 2012, p. 44, nos. 12 (for a period photograph of the pavilion) and 13
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