Poker & Tongs

Steel

13"

Scottish (Glasgow), early 20th century

An identical pair of firetools (private collection) was designed for Hous'hill, Glasgow (1904); the maker is unknown; see Fine Art Society, Mackintosh & The Vorticists, 22 February-26 March 1993, unpaginated.  Examples of the tongs can be seen in contemporary photographs of The Hill House, Helensburgh; see Roger Billcliffe, Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Complete Furniture ... (Guilford & London: Lutterworth Press, 1979, 1903.71, and 1905.C.  Another pair, reputedly from 78, Derngate, and dated 1916, was sold Sotheby's Belgravia, 27 November 1975, lot 233