CENTRE TABLE

Details

PHILIP WEBB; UNITED KINGDOM
CENTRE TABLE
circa 1880, executed by Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Company, oak, with ring-turned uprights
28 9/16 in. (72.5 cm.) high; 49 5/8 in. (126 cm.) diam.

Provenance

The Queen's Room, Manchester University, formerly Owen's College

Literature

Charlotte Gere & Michael Whiteway, Ninteenth-Century Design: From Pugin to Mackintosh, London, 1993, p.100, pl.108 (similar version illustrated).
John Andrews, Arts and Crafts Furniture, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2005, p.50, pl.45 (similar version illustrated).

Special notice

VAT rate of 17.5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Owen's College, Manchester, built by Alfred Waterhouse 1870-1873, was granted a Royal Charter in 1880 to become England's first civic university. The Queen's Room was used by Queen Victoria and subsequent monarchs and Royal dignitaries as a private room prior to attending ceremonies.

Webb's design for the circular multiple-leg table dates from the 1860s, and variations can be identified in photographs of the interior of Swann House, Chelsea, designed by Richard Norman Shaw, and again at Tangley Manor, 1885.

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