Important Design
Important Design
Auction Closed
December 12, 06:50 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Edward William Godwin
Display Cabinet
circa 1872-1875
possibly manufactured by Collinson & Lock, London, UK
ebonized wood, clear glass, mirrored glass, brass
60 ¼ x 73 ½ x 12 ½ in. (153 x 186.7 x 31.8 cm)
Kentshire Galleries, New York
Ariadne Getty
Phillips New York, June 9, 2015, lot 14
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Susan Weber Soros, The Secular Furniture of E.W. Godwin with Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1999, p. 202, fig. 323 (for a related example)
The present lot is an example of a type of cabinet used in the late nineteenth century for the display of various objects, often the Japanese (and Japanese-inspired) porcelain that was especially popular in the 1870s. Godwin’s interest in the arts of Japan is expressed through watercolors exhibiting a trellis pattern in the background that is echoed in the rail decoration of the present design.
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