Friday, August 16, 2013

Altar table



designed by Philip Webb for William Morris' sister 
at he Rochester and Southwark Diocesan Deaconess Insititution, a religious community and theological college for women at Clapham Common, London. Isabella Gilmore, the sister of the designer William Morris, was a Deaconess, and commissioned the piece.

The cloth was embroidered by May Morris, William’s daughter

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O102008/altar-table-webb-philip-speakman/

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