Isabella Gilmore Mantle Clock

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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.

Details

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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