E W Godwin for William Watt. An Anglo-Japanese ebonised display cabinet

Edward William Godwin (attributed) for William Watt. An Anglo-Japanese ebonised display cabinet, 1870s, applied label, 146cm high, 85cm wide, 38cm deep. See Soros, Susan Weber 'The Secular Furniture of E.W. Godwin', p. 214, fig. 341. If one looks carefully at the illustration one can see in the left hand corner just where the top meets the main body there is a little white mark in the photograph which is on this cabinet. There is a slight split to the right hand side just below the carved half chrysanthemum and the front right hand leg has a chip off the front. This then seems indeed to be the actual cabinet which was photographed in 1973. Susan Soros has noted the whereabouts of this cabinet were unknown when her book went to print in 1999. Anthony Geering re-discovered this piece in 2003 .