The 'Kelmscott Chaucer' Cabinet
Designer: Charles Francis Annesley Voysey, 1857-1941
Manufacturer and retailer: Story & Co.
1899
Oak with brass hinges and panels lettered in red champlevé enamel
52 1/4 inches (133 cm.); width: 54 3/4 inches (88 cm) depth: 19 inches (48 cm.)
Collection: Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery
Provenance: W. Ward Higgs, made for 23 Queensborough Terrace, Bayswater.
Exhibited: Arts & Crafts Exhibition,1899; Victoria & Albert Museum, Victorian and Fdwardian Decorative Arts, 1952 (S3); Brighton, C F A Voysey Architect and Designer, 1978 (C11).
References
Architect-Designers from Pugin to Mackintosh. Exhibition catalogue. London: The Fine Art Society with Haslam & Whiteway Ltd., 1981. No. 41.
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