H. Blairman & Sons Ltd

Designed George Edmund Street (1824-81)

Manufactured George Myers (1803-75)

Oak

69 x 99 cm (diameter)

English (London), circa 1854

Cuddesdon College, Oxford; acquired direct, with the encouragement of Fr Anthony Symondson, September 1975; Clive and Jane Wainwright

Architect-Designers: Pugin to Mackintosh, Fine Art Society with Haslam & Whiteway, 5-29 May 1981, no. 7 (lent by Clive and Jane Wainwright)

William Morris y compañia: el movimento Arts & Crafts in Gran Bretaña, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, 6 October 2017 – 21 January 2018, and Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, 22 February – 21 May 2018

Clive and Jane Wainwright Collection, H. Blairman & Sons, 21 June – 14 July 2023, no. 18

Architect-Designers: Pugin to Mackintosh, London, 1981, p. 14, no. 7

Jeremy Cooper, Victorian and Edwardian Furniture and Interiors: From Gothic Revival to Art Nouveau, London, 1987, fig. 213 (for an example in a private collection)

Annette Carruthers, ‘…Like Incubi and Succubi’, Craft History, 2 April 1989, pp. 56-61

Linda Parry, ed., William Morris, London, 1996, J.2 (for an example in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, W.88-1975)

Manuel Fontán del Junco and Maria Zozaya Alvarez (eds.), William Morris y compañia: el movimiento Arts & Crafts in Gran Bretaña, Madrid, 2017, p. 219, no. 11

Giovanni Cappelletti and Claudio Gulli, Palazzo Butera: The Francesca and Massimo Valsecchi Collection Guidebook, Palermo, 2021, p. 59 (for an example at Palazzo Butera)

Clive and Jane Wainwright Collection, London: H. Blairman & Sons, 2023, no. 18

Private collection

The design of the Cuddesdon tables derives, ultimately, from 15th-century French tables; see Audap, Solanet, Godeau-Velliet, Paris, 17 December 1993, lot 60, Holy Family, French, circa 1480.

The design for a related three-legged table by Pugin is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, E.1630-1912.