Lot 298
AFTER PHILIP WEBB FOR MORRIS & CO.
OAK TABLE, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Auction: 7 November 2012 at 11:00 GMT
Description
the circular top raised on six ring turned legs enclosing a central support, each joined by stretchers
Dimensions
128cm diameter, 74cm high
Footnote
Literature: Gere, Charlotte and Whiteway, Michael, 'Nineteenth-Century Design: From Pugin to Mackintosh', London, 1993, p.100, pl. 108
Parry, Linda, 'William Morris', London, 1996, p.175
Lyon & Turnbull, Decorative Arts, April 2004, lot 328 for a similar example in mahogany
Note: Philip Webb joined William Morris at Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. (later Morris & Co.) in 1861, the year it was founded. He had designed a related table for Sir Edward Burne-Jones in the 1850s and the firm went on to produce a number of similar examples for their commissions, including for Old Swan House, Chelsea, designed by Sir Richard Norman Shaw for the connoisseur Wickham Flower, and Great Tangley Manor in Sussex, where the firm had supplied other furniture and Webb carried out extensions in 1885. A walnut version is in the collection at Standen, the Arts and Crafts house Webb designed in 1891, now in the care of the National Trust.