'Weathercock'
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Designer / Maker
Designed by Ernest Gimson (1864–1919)
Manufactured by Alfred Bucknell (1878–1955)
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Detail
Gilded brass, now worn, and wrought iron
100 x 69 x 36 cm (top of ‘spike’, West to East, beak to tail)
English (Waterlane), circa 1928
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Provenance
Painswick Lodge, Painswick; in situ until 2018
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Literature
Ernest Gimson His Life & Work, 1924, pl. 50 (for the same model made during Gimson’s lifetime)
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Note
Gimson’s drawing for the cockerel is in the collection of The Wilson, Cheltenham (1941.223:311), see below
The description for pl. 50 (cited above) reads: ‘WEATHERCOCK. Working Drawing for a weathercock in brass gilt. Part only shewn’. One other example of this design is known to exist, perhaps the one cited above; it remains at Stoneywell Cottage, built in 1899 by Detmar Blow (1867–1939) in collaboration with Gimson for his brother Sydney Gimson (1860–1938).