Godwin barn find becomes £31,000 reward at Essex auction
This spectacular barn find, an ebonised coromandel and inlaid octagonal centre table designed by Edward Godwin (1833-86), sold for £31,000 at Sworders’ sale of decorative art and design in Stansted Mountfitchet.
Godwin's sketches for eight-legged tables of this type are housed among his papers at the Victoria a…