Godwin connection lifts table to 13 times top estimate

The distinctive Anglo-Japanese tables designed by the architect GW Godwin in the later part of the 19th century are known as Smallhythe tables, after the example found in Smallhythe Place in Kent which was the home of the actress Ellen Terry.

They are part of the Japanesque Aesthetic movement in art and applied arts that flourished in the …

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