£10,000
Hints on Household Taste : Paul Reeves | 700
Auction: 28 June 2022 at 11:00 BST
mahogany
Literature: Morris & Co catalogue, Specimens of Furniture, Upholstery and Interior Decoration, circa 1900, p. 27, no.557;
Cooper, Jeremy Victorian and Edwardian Furniture and Interiors: From the Gothic Revival to Art Nouveau, Abbeville Press, 1987, pl. 464 (variant with carved twisted legs and decorative table top edge).
Note: George Washington Jack was the chief furniture designed for Morris and Co. from 1890. Prior to this in 1879, he had undertaken some work for the architect Philip Webb and by 1882 was a full-time employee of Webb’s. From 1885 Jack was working for Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Co. as well as Philip Webb. There is a similar example of this table held in the William Morris Gallery Collection in Walthamstow (cat. no. G37). It is of comparable form, with hay-rake stretchers in the same arrangement and brackets supporting the overhanging table surface.