LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY, MORRIS & CO.

In 1877, William Morris (d.1896) studied English medieval bird patterns for manufacturing woven cloth in Queen Square, London. He introduced the 'Bird' design the following year for the drawing-room 'tapestry' wall-hangings of his London home at Kelmscott House, Hammersmith.
Duquette was the great nephew of Peter Paul Marshall, William Morris' business partner in the firm Morris, Marshall & Faulkner