£4,500
Decorative Arts: Design since 1860 | 577
Auction: 23 October 2019 at 11:00 BST
ebonised wood, with carved knopped finials above a staged mirror back, two glazed doors and original 'Dromore' leather panels, with a further mirrored shelf surmounting glazed doors flanked by open shelved sides, the whole raised on tapered turned legs
Literature: Soros, Susan The Secular Furniture of E. W. Godwin, Yale 1999, pp. 93;126; 160 and 214, plates 112; 171; 225 and 341
Note: The embossed and gilded leather used in this drawing room cabinet was used exclusively by Godwin in his furniture designs. It was first used in the furniture he designed for the interiors at Dromore Castle, Co. Limerick, built for the 3rd Earl of Limerick circa 1865-1870. Other features of this piece which are characteristic of Godwin’s furniture of the mid to late 1870s are the canted sides, the pierced and carved chrysanthemum motifs, reeded and fluted detailing and ebonised finish.