Bidding soars as Morris’s Clouds carpet comes back on the market at £78,000

AFTER the mixed response to the Christopher Dresser material offered at Lyon & Turnbull (Buyers Premium 17.5%), it was left to the catalogue of decorative arts, consigned by various vendors, to provide the auctioneers with their biggest number of the day.

A telephone bid of £78,000 came on this superb c.1889-94 William Morris Hammersmith hand-knotted car…

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