Arts and Crafts style developed in the 1860s as a reaction against the growing industrialisation of Victorian Britain. Those involved believed in the equality of all the arts and the importance and pleasure of work. The appearance of the style resulted from the principles involved in the making of the objects. By the end of the century such ideals had affected the design and manufacture of all the decorative arts in Britain.
Leonard F. Wyburd (probably, designer)
William Frend De Morgan (tiles, designer)
Liberty (manufacturer)
After 1894
Museum no. W.19-1984
C. F. A. Voysey
1896
Unstained, unvarnished oak, with copper panel, hinges and fittings
Museum no. W.6-1953
William Howson Taylor
1910
Stoneware, with a high temperature flambé glaze
Museum no. C.32&A-1978
Arthur Stansfield Dixon
About 1893
Hand-beaten brass
Museum n0. CIRC.277-1961
C. F. A. Voysey
1903
Oak, originally unpolished and unstained; present dark varnish is a later addition
Museum no. W.19-1981
Whitefriars
1876
Green glass, with blue threading and combed white threading marvered in; pressed prunt at the base of the handle
Museum no. 548-1877
John Henry Dearle
1885-1910
Glazed mahogany frame, with panels of canvas embroidered with silks in darning, stem and satin stitch
Museum no. CIRC.848-1956
Hanging
C. F. A. Voysey (designer)
Alexander Morton & Co. (maker)
1896-1900
Woven woollen double cloth, jacquard woven
Museum no. CIRC.886-1967
Ernest William Gimson
1892-1904
Ash, turned on a pole-lathe, with splats of riven ash; replacement rush seat
Museum no. CIRC.232-1960
Godfrey Blount
1896
Linen, with linen appliqué and satin stitch edging in linen thread
Museum no. T.173-1978