A rare Morris Marshall Faulkner & Co embroidered velvet bell pull probably designed by William...

A rare Morris Marshall Faulkner & Co embroidered velvet bell pull probably designed by William Morris or Ford Madox Brown, embroidered in silk with flowers and foliage in green, white, brown and white on an olive green ground, 260 x 10.5cm.

Provenance

Decorative Arts Phillips Glasgow, Friday 6th October 1995, page 20 lot 103. part of a collection by or associated with Morris & Company, formed between the wars and purchased from Morris & Co. in Hanover Square, London.

Private collection.

Literature

Linda Parry (editor) William Morris Philip Wilson/Victoria & Albert Museum, 1996, page 239 catalogue number M.13 for an identical bell-pull dated to circa 1865. This example is believed to be one of the examples mentioned in his household account book as ' two sets of worsted bell ropes'.