ERNEST ARCHIBALD TAYLOR (1874-1951) FOR WYLIE & LOCHHEAD, GLASGOW RARE OAK BUREAU CHEST, CIRCA 1900 oak, stained, mirrored and leaded glass, with silvered metal fittings and leather writing surface (72cm wide, 134cm high, 50cm deep) Note: Initially apprenticed in the Glasgow shipbuilding industry, E.A. Taylor trained as an artist at the Glasgow School of Art, where he met Jessie M. King around 1898. He worked for Wylie & Lochhead from around this time where his furniture designs brought him great acclaim with exhibitions at the 1901 Glasgow International Exhibition and, with his fiancée Jessie King a series of stained glass panels for the Turin International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art in 1902. This rare cabinet by Taylor combines his skills as a furniture maker and stained glass designer.