Description
LIBERTY & CO
ARTS AND CRAFTS ‘WITLAF SIDEBOARD’
Oak with copperised metal Plaque
Copper handles and hand-beaten hinges
Circa 1895-1900
H 77.5”/197; W 73”/185cm; D 25”/64cm
The Witlaf sideboard first appears in the Liberty & Co
Handbook of Sketches published in 1895. The name may
have been inspired by the Longfellow poem,
King Witlaf’s Drinking Horn, which began
‘Witlaf, a king of the Saxons…’
A period photograph and sketch are reproduced in
Daryl Bennett, Liberty’s Furniture 1875-1915, pp 139-140
