E. W. Godwin Attributed Anglo-Japanese Walnut Buffet or Hall Table
£8,500
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Width: 48.23 in (122.5 cm)
Depth: 14.17 in (36 cm)
1880-1889
About this piece
Attributed to E. W. Godwin, this buffet or hall table in walnut belongs to the Aesthetic Movement (1860–1890), c.1880, British, with an Anglo-Japanese open frame. The piece is arranged as a long serving or hall table, with a raised upper gallery, two drawers and a broad lower shelf.
The top is enclosed by an open fretwork gallery with shaped corner uprights and linear tramline detail. Below the top are two shallow drawers, each with a small metal pull, set above a wide open centre. The side supports use stepped rectangular fretwork, giving the frame a light architectural character rather than a solid cabinet form.
The lower shelf runs almost the full length of the base and is held between square-section uprights. The geometric side panels below the drawers relate closely to the side supports on Godwin’s Anglo-Japanese desk reproduced in William Watt’s 1877 Art Furniture Catalogue, Plate No. 8, and to the vocabulary used in Godwin’s hanging cabinet designs. See: Susan Weber Soros, The Secular Furniture of E. W. Godwin, p.267 and p.235, ill.384. (See 2nd & 3rd last images for illustrated references.)
The final image shows the related E. W. Godwin desk exhibited at the Bröhan Museum in "Edward W. Godwin and Oscar Wilde. Dandies, Decadence & Modernism."