Edward William Godwin, Display Cabinet

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.