Object Description
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E W Godwin, attributed. Probably made by Collinson and Lock.
An Anglo-Japanese Aesthetic Movement walnut centre or dining table, with a large circular top with a shaped apron below, on six flaring turned legs, united by six radiating spoke stretchers to a central open ring.
See : Art Furniture from Designs by E.W. Godwin, F.S.A., London, 1877, plate 12 for a similar eight-legged example.
Lionel Lambourne, The Aesthetic Movement, London, 1996, page 159, illustrated.
Susan Weber Soros, The Secular Furniture of E.W. Godwin, New Haven, 2001, pp.149, 151-152 for similar examples, page 150, cat no. 214, illustrated.
A pencil and gouache drawing for a similar eight-legged version in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
For a comparable seven leg example (which I have shown here in the last image). See Sotheby’s sale 5th February 2019 : THE FINE ART SOCIETY: 142 YEARS ON NEW BOND STREET :- Lot 40.
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