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Charles Bevan attributed, made by Marsh, Jones and Cribb.
An Aesthetic Movement walnut centre table with ebony line inlaid details. The rectangular top with D ends, turned legs with cross style stretchers, united by a central stretcher with ring-pierced brackets on sledge style feet.
Original MJC paper label under the table top.
Marsh and Jones began making furniture around 1850, originally known as “Marsh and Jones: Medieval Cabinet Makers†of Leeds", becoming Marsh Jones and Cribb in 1867 and exhibited at the Paris Exposition in 1878. They employed Charles Bevan who in 1865 gave them licence to manufacture his successful ‘New Registered Reclining Chair. Bevan designed the furniture and interiors an enormous commission for the son of Sir Titus Salt for his marital home Saltaire.
Another famous architect and interior designer Bruce James Talbert was also designing for MJC in the 1870s and 1880s.
