A VICTORIAN ARTS AND CRAFTS MAHOGANY CENTRE TABLE

The lower stretcher of this table is typical of the work of George Washington Jack (1855-1932) and the legs and turned spindles of Philip Webb (d. 1915), who had been a founding member of Morris & Co. together with William Morris (d. 1896) in the 1860s. Jack worked with Philip Webb from 1880. He was a noted wood carver and inlayer, publishing Wood Carving: Design and Workmanship, 1903. He became Chief Designer for Morris and Co. in 1890, remaining there after Morris' death in 1896 and then taking over Webb's architectural practice in 1900.