Lot 350
An Aesthetic mahogany two tier work table
Auction: 24 April 2001 at 12:00 BST
£1,668
Description
circa1880, attributed to E.W. Godwin, with two graduated circular totating tiers, separated by a turned column, raised on ring turned and knopped legs with outswept ends, and centred by a lower tier,
56cm diameter x 94cm high
Footnote
Note: There are no surviving drawings for this table however it resembles Godwin's Sheraton-inspired designs of the 1870's. The design is based on English dumbwaiters of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the tripod form and lower tier configuration can be found in some Godwin sketches.
c.f. S.W. Soros "The Secular Furniture of E.W. Godwin," Yale University Press, page 170, illus. 244