Description
inlaid with satinwood panels, the square moulded top above two drawers and a lower tier with fretwork brackets and two further drawers, the sides with corresponding inlaid panels, the whole raised on incised and ring-turned tapered legs
Dimensions
53.5cm squared, 73cm high
Footnote
Literature: Soros, Susan Weber 'The Secular Furniture of E. W. Godwin' Yale University Press, 1999, p.203, pl. 325 where this table is illustrated.
Provenance: Phillips, Edinburgh Sale of the Contents of The Fine Art Society, Edinburgh, 26th May 1992, lot 392
Note: The tapered legs, latticed middle supports and U-shaped handles all conform to Godwin's work of the mid-1870's as do the drawer arrangements, a characteristic feature. Soros also asserts that the high elevation of the lower drawer is 'in keeping with Godwin's desire to keep the floor accessible for cleaning.