PHILIP WEBB (1831-1915) FOR MORRIS & CO.
ARTS & CRAFTS 'KELMSCOTT' TABLE, CIRCA 1875
oak
175.5cm long, 75cm high, 80cm deep
Note: This model was originally designed by Philip Webb circa 1875, and which William Morris had in his study at Kelmscott House, Hammersmith. There is a watercolour by Mary A. Sloane ('May Morris in Tapestry Room at Kelmscott Manor', 1910-15), which depicts William Morris' daughter May editing the twenty-four volumes of Collected Works by William Morris at the Kelmscott table. The picture is held in the William Morris Gallery, Waltham Forest, London. A table of this design can still be found in the Tapestry Room at Kelmscott Manor, Oxfordshire.