Rare, unusual and interesting antique costumes and textiles; for museums and collectors looking for that extra special piece, for new and established collectors and for those with a modest budget who want to adorn their person or home.

SOLD

Sidney Mawson
1920s

Sidney G Mawson (1876-1941) was a very successful designer by changing his style to suit fashion and the individual tastes of manufacturers.  He designed for weaver A H Lee, and for printers Thomas Wardle, Foxton's, Turnbull and Stockdale, G P & J Baker, Warner & Sons, Alexander Morton and Morton Sundour, who sold through Liberty's. Pleasaunce was Morton Sundour's most popular design in 1907. Previously he had taught textile design at the Slade School of Art and was a landscape painter. He also designed wallpapers for Jeffrey & Sons.


Cataloguing

An English garden with pergolas, and urns, a variety of flowering trees including roses, flowers including lillieshorned poppies, peacocks and rabbits, all in bright clear shades of red, blue, green, yellow, blue and mauve, on a natural coloured cotton ground.



36 x 35 in; 92 x 88 cm selvedge to selvedge



Another similar piece.



5ft 5 in x 2ft 2 in; 1.65 x 67 cm



 


Condition

Both pieces are in very good conditon.



The first square piece is £ 145. The background shade of this piece is slightly lighter. SOLD



The second piece is £ 200


Comments

Three Generations in a Family Textile Firm by Jocelyn Morton p 170



Textiles of the Arts & Crafts Movement by Linda Parry p 135