Tabernacle Door Panels
Created by Percy Oswald Reeves
Date: 1923
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: architecture (fixtures and fittings), metalwork
Object type: door panel
Technique: enamelled
Description: ornate metal door panels; 'commisioned by Mr. R. M. Butler, architect to design and make two tabernacle door panels, which he now has in hand [...] one in repousse silver, partially gilt and the other in repousse copper gilt with enamels'
Notes: This work is similar to commissions received by Earley and Company, visible in Earley and Company Documentation at NCAD's, Nival archive and highlights the fact that architects may have come to individuals such as Reeves, in addition to using organisations such as Earley and Company, for individual commissions and 'one off' pieces, such as that described here. Reeves himself referred to the commission as a unique piece of work, not for mass production.
Makers, Owners and Exhibitors
Commissioned by R.M. Butler
1923
Reeves commissioned by Butler (architect) to design and make two ornately decorated tabernacle doors
Sources
National College of Art and Design, Minutes & Reports Folder, file no. 31 (A).
staff file re. H. O. Reeves, containing letters of appointment, details of classes taught by him, his interaction with the apprentices of the Goldsmiths' Corporation, re. metalwork and enamelling classes, from 1905 to 1921
Citing this record
'Tabernacle Door Panels', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib3_1217417753, accessed 30 Sep 2023]
