Firescreen with Clanfield embroidery

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Date: c. 1895-96
Dimensions: 109 x 60.5 x 30
Object Type: furniture
Catalogue number: G79
Designer and maker: Morris & Co.
Credit notes: Purchased with assistance from the Friends of the William Morris Gallery, 2017

This firescreen was produced by Morris & Co. The embroidery is ‘Clanfield’ design and was designed by either May Morris or Henry Dearle. The embroidery is of a high quality suggesting it was made in the Morris & Co. embroidery workshop, Morris & Co. also produced embroidery kits that could be worked at home. An example of ‘Clanfield’ is illustrated in ‘The Studio’ magazine for 1896-7 in a review of the 1896 Arts and Crafts exhibition, worked by Flora E.J. Hayman.

Object Type: furniture

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