Lot 45: AN ARTS AND CRAFTS MAHOGANY CIRCULAR CENTRE TABLE

AN ARTS AND CRAFTS MAHOGANY CIRCULAR CENTRE TABLE
DESIGNED BY PHILIP WEBB (1831-1915) FOR MORRIS & Co., CIRCA 1870
With ring turned legs joined by conforming stretchers
29½ in. (75 cm.) high; 48 in. (122 cm.) diameter

Charlotte Gere & Michael Whiteway, Nineteenth-Century Design: From Pugin to Mackintosh, London, 1993, p. 100, pl. 108 (similar design illustrated).
John Andrews, Arts and Crafts Furniture, Woodbridge, 2005, p. 50, pl. 45 (similar design illustrated).

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.
Webb's design for the circular multiple-legged table dates from the 1860s, and variations can be identified in photographs of the interior of Swann House, Chelsea, designed by Richard Norman Shaw, and again in Tangley Manor, 1885.