AN IMPORTANT 'SMALLHYTHE' MAHOGANY TABLE, BY E. W. GODWIN (ENGLISH, 1833-1886), CIRCA 1880

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AN IMPORTANT 'SMALLHYTHE' MAHOGANY TABLEBY E. W. GODWIN (ENGLISH, 1833-1886), CIRCA 1880The rectangular top with two D-shaped drop flaps above an asymmetric arrangement of open shelves and a further drop flap, partially reeded uprights joined by multiple stretchers875cm high, 81cm wide, 41.2cm deepProvenance:Sotheby's, The Best of British - Design from the 19th and 20th Centuries - Paul Reeves: The Auction, 20 March 2008, lot 38Literature: Jeremy Cooper, Victorian and Edwardian Furniture and Interiors, London, 1987, pl. 326; Charlotte Gere and Michael Whiteway, Nineteenth Century Design from Pugin to Mackintosh, London, 1993, p.188Susan Soros, E.W. Godwin, Aesthetic Movement Architect and Designer, New York, 1999, front cover and fig. 3-1 Godwin's drawings of this form are contained in his sketchbooks at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (PD E.255-1963, fol. 21). Among the original owners of this model of table was Dame Ellen Terry, the great Shakespearean actress who lived with Godwin from 1868-75. She later moved to Smallhythe Place, Tenterden, Kent, from which the name derives. Similar examples are in the National Trust collection. In total six 'Smallhythe' tables are known to exist, including the example offered here.

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