Object Description
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Edward William Godwin (firmly attributed) for Collinson and Lock, a superior quality Anglo-Japanese rosewood sideboard almost certainly designed by Edward William Godwin. Godwin’s style is easily recognised throughout, with two upper glazed doors, an open void to the centre with panel doors below, the Anglo-Japanese style engraved metalwork representing butterfly’s is of the highest quality made by and stamped ‘Elsley no. 7211’. Thomas Elsley was one of the best foundries in Great Britain and amongst others also made metalwork to the designs of C. F. A. Voysey.
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