Hand painted saucer

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Date: c. 1884
Dimensions: 23 x 23
Object Type: design
Material: pencil on tracing paper
Catalogue number: A194c
Artist: Mackmurdo | Arthur Heygate | 1851 | 1942
Credit notes: Mackmurdo bequest, 1942

From a series of slight variations, this design is a working drawing for the inlaid motif in satinwood on the top of a circular mahogany table. The circular design features six tulips with stamens and leaves set inside a simple border. The mahogany table is also in the William Morris Gallery collection and shows that the final design was altered from this draft. The stamen lines emerging from the flower heads in this drawing were removed in the more restrained final design that can be seen on the table.

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Date: c. 1887
Dimensions: 50.2 x 66
Object Type: design
Material: pencil on tracing paper
Catalogue number: A163
Artist: Mackmurdo | Arthur Heygate | 1851 | 1942
Credit notes: Macmurdo bequest, 1942

As a working drawing, this design does not show a finished piece but an initial plan for the upper part of a piece of furniture, possibly a pedestal table or writing desk. The pillar is illustrated in two ways, straight sided and bulbous, showing Mackmurdo’s thought process as he imagines how the final piece will look. The drawing is similar in idea to a number of pieces of furniture designed by Mackmurdo in the 1880s.

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Date: 1871
Dimensions: 55.6 x 76.5
Object Type: design
Material: pencil on paper
Catalogue number: A158b
Artist: Mackmurdo | Arthur Heygate | 1851 | 1942
Credit notes: Mackmurdo bequest, 1942

Halcyon House, Private Road, Bush Hill Park Estate, Enfield was designed and built by Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo for his mother c.1875-1872. This architectural drawing shows the back elevation (south west) for Halcyon House with side view of the side gable end (north west), chimney and fenestrated gable ends, sash window and classical patterning. The house was demolished in 1968.

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