Sale Moorcroft The Margaret that Would Be Plaque PLQ20 – Numbered Moorcroft

Moorcroft The Margaret that Would Be Plaque

2025 Spring Catalogue – March in the UK

Designer: Nicola Slaney

Numbered Edition

Shape: PLQ20

Dimensions: H 34 x W 19 x D 2.5cm

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Charles Rennie Mackintosh is famed for his furniture and for his architecture, such as Hill House and the School of Art in Glasgow, but inspired by his wife, Margaret MacDonald, he also sketched mysterious, tall women, such as In Fairyland, Fairies and the fae vision of Part Seen, Part Imagined 1896.

Kept at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Nicola delves into the whirlpool of the unseen part of the Part Seen, Part Imagined artwork. The Moorcroft designer uses architectural geometric linework to create order from chaos, neatly seating a large crimson Glasgow rose amongst graceful, stronger, and cleaner lines.

In spook school contrast, Mackintosh’s drawing holds hints of “a glimmering girl, With apple blossom in her hair” perhaps inspired by the Yeats poem the couple loved so much, whereas Nicola creates a lady. The maiden’s flowing hair morphs into a streamlined, turn of the century, cartwheel hat and she is dressed in haute couture clothing, transformed under a puff of apple blossom into The Margaret that Would Be.