Occasional table
Liberty and Co.
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1880
Materials
Walnut
Measurements
61 cm (Height); 54 cm (Diameter)
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Standen House and Garden, West Sussex
NT 1213927
Summary
A walnut occasional table, English, retailed by Liberty & Co. circa 1880. With a circular moulded top and friezes shaped as an islamic arch, raised on three splayed legs joined by a triangular undertier with pierced fretwork frieze rails, with printed paper label LIBERTY & Co., REGENT ST., LONDON and handwritten number '263', also stamped LIBERTY & CO. REGENT ST. 0283.
Full description
After ten years service working at Farmer & Rogers Oriental Warehouse in Regent Street which specialised in Kashmir shawls and oriental goods, Arthur Lasenby Liberty (1843-1917) opened his own store in 1875 with a £2000 loan from his future father-in-law. Liberty's collection of ornaments, textiles and objets d'art from the Middle East and Asia proved irresistible to a society intoxicated at the time by Japan and the East. In 1880, a furniture department opened under the direction of Leonard. F. Wyburd and an Anglo-Oriental hybrid style for furniture and objects developed, soon embracing designers from the Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau movements and introducing the now famous range of Art Nouveau Tudric and Cymric pewter.
Marks and inscriptions
Paper label to underside : LIBERTY & Co. REGENT ST., LONDON '263' Stamped to underside: LIBERTY & Co., REGENT ST. 0283
Makers and roles
Liberty and Co., retailer