THE DESIGN ATTRIBUTED TO G. J. LOCK AND STEPHEN WEBB, MANUFACTURED BY COLLINSON & LOCK, SERIAL NUMBER 8727, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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An English ivory-inlaid rosewood and marquetry secretaire
The design attributed to G. J. Lock and Stephen Webb, manufactured by Collinson & Lock, serial number 8727, late 19th century
The serpentine top above a frieze inlaid with playful putti and scrolling foliate branches, above a fall-front with similar inlay, the reverse with leather writing-surface, the interior enclosing three galleried sliding shelves, the tiered sides flanked by fluted pilasters with Ionic capitals, above a drawer stamped to the top COLLINSON & LOCK/LONDON and numbered 8727, the lockplate stamped COPE & COLLINSON, on carved cylindrical legs joined by a shaped undertier, on fluted tapering feet
54½ in. (138.5 cm.) high; 37¾ in. (96 cm.) wide; 14¾ in. (37.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

Publications on Renaissance ornament in the 1870s promoted the fashion for certosa style ivory-inlay as featured in G. J. Oakshott's Details and Ornaments of the Renaissance, 1888. Stephen Webb (1849-1933), a member of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, was perhaps the most celebrated designer of this intarsia or certosa inlay, and was employed from the mid-1880s by Messrs Collinson & Lock of Fleet Street and Oxford Street. This secretaire is very similar to a group of pieces with cabinetwork designed by G. J. Lock and inlay by Webb which were exhibited at the third Arts and Crafts Exhibition in 1890.

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