A Morris & Co walnut sideboard/buffet designed by Philip Webb rectangular section, three panelled doors below one single and one double fronted drawer, the top with shelf, arched full mantle with turned cluster pillar supports, brass furniture unsigned, 156cm. high, 158cm. wide, 51cm deep. Literature The Best of British Design from the 19th and 20th Centuries, The Selling Exhibition, Sotheby's/Paul Reeves, 4-20th March 2008 catalogue number PR72. Provenance Sir Henry Howse, given as a wedding present in 1881, thence by descent. Catalogue notes Sir Henry Howse (1841-1914) was a senior surgeon at Guy's hospital and was given this piece of Morris & Co furniture by his colleagues as a wedding present in 1881. He was knighted in 1902 in the Coronation Honours, commemorating the Coronation of Edward VII for services to medicine. Read more »
A Morris & Co walnut sideboard/buffet designed by Philip Webb rectangular section, three panelled doors below one single and one double fronted drawer, the top with shelf, arched full mantle with turned cluster pillar supports, brass furniture unsigned, 156cm. high, 158cm. wide, 51cm deep. Literature The Best of British Design from the 19th and 20th Centuries, The Selling Exhibition, Sotheby's/Paul Reeves, 4-20th March 2008 catalogue number PR72. Provenance Sir Henry Howse, given as a wedding present in 1881, thence by descent. Catalogue notes Sir Henry Howse (1841-1914) was a senior surgeon at Guy's hospital and was given this piece of Morris & Co furniture by his colleagues as a wedding present in 1881. He was knighted in 1902 in the Coronation Honours, commemorating the Coronation of Edward VII for services to medicine. Read more »
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