Object Description
Howard and Sons.
A high art Aesthetic Movement walnut centre tea table with an unusual raised upper shelf to the centre of the main top on arched and turned supports. The top with shaped and incised aprons to the corners with fine turned legs united by turned and fluted stretchers, the ends with turned cross stretchers uniting a central circular disc.
Original Howard and Sons paper label underneath.
Table height: 63.5 cm; Height with upper shelf: 78 cm
John Howard began trading in 1820. Their sofas and chairs became famous during the mid to late Victorian period supplying the upper classes. They worked with Gillows of Lancaster and supplied furniture to the Savoy Hotel in London, receiving a number of Royal Warrants of Appointment, including two golds and a silver at the Paris exhibition of 1900.
Howard & Sons furniture are in the collections of the Victoria & Albert museum London, the State Hermitage museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.