E W Godwin for William Watt. An Anglo-Moorish walnut desk

Edward William Godwin (attributed) for William Watt. An Anglo-Moorish walnut desk, with a later tooled red leather inset top, blind fret frieze with two drawers, each end with a drawer, the tapered supports with shaped brackets, brass feet, 76cm high, 101cm wide, 61cm deep See sale Gardiner Houlgate 'Antique Furniture Works of Art' Wednesday 14th July 1999, lot 775 this desk. Lot 773 in the same sale and from the same property in Bath was an oak buffet and a walnut sideboard in the same Anglo-Moorish style both with William Watt, Grafton Street, London labels. See Soros, Susan Weber 'The Secular Furniture of E.W. Godwin', p.267 plate 8 from William Watt's 1877 Art Furniture catalogue under Anglo-Japanese Drawing Room Furniture One can see that the overall form is the same style and has the same large drawer details to each end and identical brass drop handles with curled ends and central disc detail. The legs with identical brass sabots to the feet to the one in the William Watt catalogue of 1877. The spacing of the storage shelves are also the same, although it does not have the same work area overhang it is undoubtedly a variation of the same theme.