Painted Wood Square

Details

Dimensions: 4.4 x 9.8 x 9.8
Object Type: furniture
Material: wood
Technique: painted wood
Catalogue number: M2
Artist: Image, Selwyn, 1849, 1930
Credit notes: Mackmurdo Bequest, 1942

Small circular wooden box, lid painted with design of female head against a blue background. A band around the side of the box holds the Latin inscription: ‘O facies oculos nata tenere meos!’ This is taken from a poem in the second book of Ovid’s Amores and translates as: ‘Oh my face was born to hold my eyes!’

Details

Date: c.1909 - 1910
Dimensions: 97.2 x 43.8 x 45.7
Object Type: furniture
Material: oak and rush seat
Catalogue number: G68b
Credit notes: Presented by Miss Rhoda Wells, 1980.

One of four with G67, G69, G70. A sample of the chair is illustrated in the Morris & Company’s 1910/11 catalogue ‘Specimens of Upholstered Furniture’ no. 192 which was available in green or brown stain, priced at 14/- (=70 pence) with matching armchair no. 191, priced at 23/- (=£1.30p). The design is adapted from a traditional country type and is close to some of the furniture made by Ernest Gimson, such as G56. The chairs were apparently re-rushed c. 1970 by the Workshops for the Blind.

Object Type: furniture

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