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'Vanity' mirror

Beaten lead mirror with peacock designs.
The mirror was almost certainly part of the furnishings of the Mackintoshes Southpark Avenue flat taken over by William Davidson when he purchased the flat.

MacNair, James Herbert

Teapot from tea service

This teapot forms part of a painted china tea service, and is paired with NMC/0233L . Orange lustre-glaze, and flower paintings on a white china blank. Initialled by the artist on the base.

Macbeth, Ann

Stoneware mug

This item suffered significant damage in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. It was salvaged and has undergone conservation and consolidation work. Stoneware mug with transfer printing. Blue and black decorative pattern. Marked on base: "Robert Stewart | Scotland" with four leaf clover symbol.

Stewart, Robert

Square bowl

Blue glazed ceramic square bowl with white glaze decorative design on inside. Engraved marking on bottom and side - "ST" (creator's initials) and another marking of a circle with an X over it (maker's mark).

Thomson, Robert Sinclair

Spice jar: ginger

Short white spice jar with gold lid. Blue and black transfer designs. Labelled 'Ginger' in black towards the top. Has 2 relief bands of circles around the jar.

Stewart, Robert

Spice jar

This item was damaged in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. It was assessed by a conservator but no conservation work was deemed possible. Small white spice jar with red and black transfer design. Two relief bands of circles around the body. Gold lid.

Stewart, Robert

Spice jar

This item was damaged in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. It was assessed by a conservator but no conservation work was deemed possible. Small white spice jar with red and black transfer design. Two relief bands of circles around the body. No lid.

Stewart, Robert

Small vase with green swirls

Small glazed ceramic vase with green swirls pattern. Simple green band around the mouth. Engraved marking on bottom - "ST" (creator's initials) and another marking of a circle with an X over it (maker's mark).

Thomson, Robert Sinclair

Shallow bowl with small handles

Ceramic bowl with small handles. Dark brown glaze on the outside and turquoise glaze on the inside with a circular pattern. Engraved marking on bottom - "ST" (creator's initials) and another marking of a circle with an X over it (maker's mark).

Thomson, Robert Sinclair

Shallow bowl

Shallow bowl with green/yellow lustre glaze. Hand-painted band of green leaves and blue buds around the mouth. 'Macintyre & Burslem England' stamp on bottom.

Macbeth, Ann

Scene from Tristan and Isolde

Stained glass panel. Inscribed above: "Glasgow School of Art"; below: "Isolde Mark's wife who gave the love potion to Tristan". It was one of Fra Newbery's considerable achievements to see the need for training students in industrial art and design and persuade the governors to establish a decorative arts department. His annual report of 1893 announces 'This room has been specially fitted up and artist craftsmen have been engaged to give instruction in such subjects as glass staining, pottery, repousse and metalwork, wood carving and book binding, beside Artistic Needlecraft taught by a Lady.' Early teachers of stained glass at the GSA included Norman Macdougall, Harry Roe and William Stewart. Among the students were Jessie Rowat, Emily Hutcheson, Herbert MacNair, Stephen Adam Jr, W.G Morton and Dorothy Carleton Smyth.

Smyth, Dorothy Carleton

Robert Burns decorative plate

Large decorative ceramic plate with brown transfer of Robert Burns in a landscape. Text above him reads, 'I Think I'm Feeling Better'. Brown decorative transfer pattern around the edges of the plate. 'Bill Brown, Glasgow 1996, 7/12' on verso.

Brown, William

Printed page of photographs featuring female students

Printed page featuring three scanned black and white photographs. Top left depicts five women, likely GSA students, posed and smiling on a set of stairs; top right depicts two women wearing artists smocks stood next to a plaster bust; bottom right depicts fifteen women, likely students, and one man, likely their teacher, posed on the same stairs. The page is captioned ‘Diploma June 12th 1934 in Design & Decorative Art GSC’.

Wilson, Jeanne

Printed page of images featuring embroidery and calligraphy work

Print on photographic paper containing two images of student work. Left: close-up of sample of embroidered cloth depicting a woman bent to water a plant in blue, green and cream thread, bordered with various decorative marks, shapes and images in multicolour. ‘1932’ and ‘JEAN WILSON’ are embroidered above and below the image in lilac thread. Right: image of a page of illuminated poetry (by Janet Begbie) hand-written in black ink and bordered by coloured ink illustrations relating to the poem’s themes of adventure, youth and travel at sea, in blue, green and red, as well as a decorative border in gold, blue, red and black.

Wilson, Jeanne

Pottery fragment

1st piece of rim fragment with cream glaze and band of blue, light turquoise, and red/brown paint on recto. Small band of blue paint on verso.

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Pottery fragment

Slightly curved fragment with blue glaze and dark green hand-painted design and bands on recto. Blue glaze with dark green hand-painted Arabic writing and a green band on verso.

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Pottery fragment

Rim fragment with cream glaze and blue, turquoise, red, and dark brown hand-painted patterns on recto. '15 SAVEH' and '15' handwritten on verso. Saveh is a city in Iran.

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Pottery fragment

2nd piece of rim fragment with cream glaze and band of blue, light turquoise, and red/brown paint on recto. Band of blue paint on verso.

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Pottery fragment

Fragment with blue glaze on recto and cream glaze with brown/gold hand-painted pattern on verso. Handwritten letters on one edge - possibly 'C S RAZ.'

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Pottery fragment

Rim fragment with cream glaze and dark blue, red, turquoise, and gold hand-painted pattern on recto. Cream glaze with hand-painted red band and black Arabic inscription on verso.

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Pottery fragment

Fragment with cream glaze and light yellow/gold hand-painted patterns and figures riding horses on recto. Cream glaze with brown hand-painted designs on verso.

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Pottery fragment

Rim fragment from dish or plate. Hand-painted black Arabic writing on recto. 'GOMBAZ KAOUE near Persepolis' handwritten on verso. Persepolis is a city in Iran.

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