George Jack for Morris and Co. A figured mahogany, chequer and line inlaid secretaire bookcase

George Washington Jack for Morris and Co. A figured mahogany, chequer and line inlaid secretaire bookcase, with astragal glazing and serpentine shelves, the drop-down writing area with original inset leather flanked by canted inlaid stationery doors, further conforming inlays to the lower cupboard doors, on shaped plinth conforming to the inlaid details throughout, stamped 'Morris and Co 449 Oxford St', 200cm high, 133cm wide, 46.5cm deep. See SothebyÆs with Paul Reeves æThe Best of British Design from the 19th and 20th Centuries: The Selling ExhibitionÆ, p.107 for a comparable example. There is an almost identical variation of this secretaire bookcase at Standen. A superb Vernacular house in East Grinstead designed by Phillip Webb for J.S.Beale in 1891.