Charles Rennie Mackintosh bedside cabinet sells for £250,000

A mahogany bedside cabinet designed by artist and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh has sold for £250,000 at auction.

The "exceptionally rare" work dates to 1916 and was first housed in the only English home designed by Mackintosh - 78 Derngate in Northampton.

A pencil drawing for a book cover by Mackintosh's sister-in-law Frances Macdonald MacNair fetched £125,000 at the same auction.

That was 10 times more than estimated.

The sales were the highlights of a two-day international auction by Lyon & Turnbull.

The company's head of design, John Mackie, said: "The prices achieved today reaffirm the international standing of these visionary Glasgow artists and the ongoing appetite of the market to acquire outstanding design."