A Morris & Co. ebonized sideboard designed by Philip Webb, the carved and moulded canopied superstructure mounted with a single moulded shelf supported on turned columns, the rectangular top with long and short moulded drawers above three panelled cupboard doors, similarly moulded, enclosing single shelves and a cellarette, on four square-section legs with undulated apron, 1863

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A Morris & Co. ebonized sideboard designed by Philip Webb, the carved and moulded canopied superstructure mounted with a single moulded shelf supported on turned columns, the rectangular top with long and short moulded drawers above three panelled cupboard doors, similarly moulded, enclosing single shelves and a cellarette, on four square-section legs with undulated apron, 1863
155cm. high; 157cm. wide; 47.5cm. deep

Provenance

Augusta Webster, poet and personal friend of Dante Gabriel Rossetti; thence by decent

Lot Essay

Cf. Truth, Beauty and Design, Victorian, Edwardian and Later Decorative Arts, Fischer Fine Art with Adrian Tilbrook, London 15 May- 27 June 1986, p.40, no.71, comparable example illustrated; Kelmscott Manor, Gloucestershire, comparable example exhibited

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