Tea Table

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Designer Edward William Godwin(English, 1833–1886)English, 1833–1886

CultureEnglish

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Tea Table

Datec. 1880

MediumMahogany

Dimensions29 × 17 × 16 in. (73.7 × 43.2 × 40.6 cm)

Credit LineThe American Institute of Architects, Houston Design Collection, museum purchase funded by friends of James Furr, FAIA, in his honor

Object number2015.523

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Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design

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FURNITURE

ProvenancePrivate collection, Devon, England, c. 1950s-60s; by inheritance to collector's daughter; [Edd Thomas, Wiltshire, U.K., July 2015]; [Paul Reeves, London, 20 July 2015]; purchased by MFAH, 2015.
Published References Soros, Susan Weber. "The Secular Furniture of E.W. Godwin." New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. "E.W. Godwin: Aesthetic Movement Architect and Designer." New York and New Haven: Bard Graduate Center and Yale University Press, 1999. Aslin, Elizabeth. "The Furniture Designs of E.W. Godwin," The Victoria and Albert Museum Bulletin 3 (October 1967): 145-154. Aslin, Elizabeth, E. W. Godwin, Furniture and Interior Decoration, London, 1986: 7-11. "E.W. Godwin: Furniture and Interior Decoration." London: J. Murray, 1986. Jervis, Simon. "High Victorian Design/Le Style de la Grande Époque Victorienne." Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1974. Kinchin, Juliet. "Collinson and Lock," Connoisseur 201 (May 1970): 47-53. Cooper, Jeremy, Victorian and Edwardian Decor from the Gothic Revival to Art Nouveau, New York, I987: 140-141, 253, fig. 326. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

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