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Lot Essay
Similar design illustrated:
Art Journal, 1886 (as a table border) p. 122;
Easter Art Annual, The Art Journal, 1900.
The poppy border of the current lot was designed by William Morris and first displayed at the Philadelphia Exhibition of 1874. The design was registered with the Patent Office on 24 December 1875 and was a popular design repeatedly employed by the Morris and Co. embroidery workshop. The pattern of the central field, with its repeating lozenge of foliate motifs, follows William Morris's own bedspread, also made by May Morris, which remains on his bed in Kelmscott Manor, Gloucestershire.
Christie's wishes to thank Linda Parry for her assistance with the cataloguing of this lot.
For further images see www.christies.com
Art Journal, 1886 (as a table border) p. 122;
Easter Art Annual, The Art Journal, 1900.
The poppy border of the current lot was designed by William Morris and first displayed at the Philadelphia Exhibition of 1874. The design was registered with the Patent Office on 24 December 1875 and was a popular design repeatedly employed by the Morris and Co. embroidery workshop. The pattern of the central field, with its repeating lozenge of foliate motifs, follows William Morris's own bedspread, also made by May Morris, which remains on his bed in Kelmscott Manor, Gloucestershire.
Christie's wishes to thank Linda Parry for her assistance with the cataloguing of this lot.
For further images see www.christies.com