Pollok House Furniture and Interiors
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of furniture and interiors from Pollok House which dates from 1600 to 1991. This collection comprises the furniture and interiors of Pollok House. The most significant interior decoration in the original part of the house is the fine plasterwork, attributed to the well known Clayton family, found in several of the main rooms. Rowand Anderson’s principal interiors are all remarkable, especially the Library, sub-divided by handsome Ionic columns and housing some 7,500 volumes – acclaimed as the finest 20th century library in Scotland. Also of note is the important hand-painted Chinese wallpaper, dating from around 1800, in the Keir Bedroom, originally from Keir House, Stirling and installed here as recently as 1991. Apart from the extensive series of family portraits, little of the original contents remain in the house. One exception is an extraordinary long-case clock from 1764, made by John Craig of Glasgow, with the Maxwell family crest on the dial. Other interesting items of furniture include a suite of Dutch marquetry table and chairs, and a superb pair of carved mahogany George II settees which were bought for the house in 1977. Pollok House, three miles to the south of Glasgow city centre, was built between 1747 and 1752 for Sir John Maxwell (1686–1752). Much of its contents and part of the historic estate were gifted to the City of Glasgow in 1967 by Lady Anne Maxwell Macdonald, 11th Baronet.
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