This photograph depicts the the Morris’s dining room at Kelmscott House in 1896, photographed by Morris’s friend and neighbour Emery Walker. A large seventeenth-century Iranian ‘vase’ carpet from Kerman hangs from the wall, now in the V&A. In front is an Italian cypress chest (now in the Fitzwilliam) laid out with various decorative items, including two nineteenth century Iranian brass incense burners in the shape of peacocks (now at Kelmscott Manor), two brass plates leaning against the wall, two Hispano-moresque plates lying flat, two brass candlesticks and a large Iranian lidded metal bowl in between.
The photograph was given to the Gallery by Dorothy Walker, Emery Walker’s daughter.
