Low table
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Designer / Maker
Designed by John Moyr Smith (1839-1912)
Manufactured by Collinson & Lock (1870-97)
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Detail
Mahogany
59 x 76 x 74.5 cm
English (London), circa 1871
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Marked
Stamped ‘COLLINSON & LOCK / 6461 / LONDON (see right)
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Provenance
[…]; H. Blairman & Sons, 1980s; American private collection
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Literature
Collinson & Lock, ‘Drawing Room Furniture’, Sketches of Artistic Furniture, 1871, pl. XI (see right)
Clive Edwards, Collinson & Lock: Art Furnishers, Interior Decorators and Designers 1870-1900, Market Harborough: Matador Books, 2022, pp. 164-65, pls. 4.113-116
https://bifmo.furniturehistorysociety.org/entry/collinson-and-lock-1870-1897
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Collection
Private collection
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Note
An ebonised version of this model was, for many years, used by George and Martin Levy as a coffee table in their Mount Street shop. It was spirited away by Massimo and Francesca Valsecchi, and is now at the Palazzo Butera, Palermo (see right).