Low table

Ref: 1855
  • Designer / Maker

    Designed by John Moyr Smith (1839-1912)

    Manufactured by Collinson & Lock (1870-97)

  • Detail

    Mahogany

    59 x 76 x 74.5 cm

    English (London), circa 1871

  • Marked

    Stamped ‘COLLINSON & LOCK / 6461 / LONDON (see right)

  • Provenance

    […]; H. Blairman & Sons, 1980s; American private collection

  • 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

  • Collection

    Private collection

  • 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).