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A PAIR OF LATE VICTORIAN OAK SIDE TABLES by Goodall, Lamb & Heighway, Manchester and bearing thei...

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A PAIR OF LATE VICTORIAN OAK SIDE TABLES by Goodall, Lamb & Heighway, Manchester and bearing thei...
A PAIR OF LATE VICTORIAN OAK SIDE TABLES by Goodall, Lamb & Heighway, Manchester and bearing their trade label Late 19th century Each rectangular quarter sawn oak top with molded edge on two fluted ionic columns the quarter sawn double fielded panelled back flanked by pilasters above a platform stretcher, on turned flattened bun feet 331/2 X 59 X 21 in. 85 X 149 X 53 cm - $6,000-9,000 James Lamb (1816-1903) founded a cabinet making workshop in Manchester which flourished during the boom years of the Industrial Revolution. The firm exhibited at the 1862 London Universal Exhibition, and in Paris in 1867 and 1878, winning several awards. Principally associated with the Aesthetic Movement, Lamb worked in association with several key designers of the period including Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) and Charles Bevan. An obituary in 'The Journal of Decorative Art and British Decorator' for September 1903 states "His name was a synonym for the best in everything he did from 1850 to 1885, and he towered over somebody in Lancashire and Yorkshire as a maker of high class furniture and to middle aged and older men connected with the furniture and decorating business, his name for fifty years stood as a landmark for all that was best in both spheres of industrial art." Charles Bevan was responsible for the design of a bookcase exhibited at The Paris Exhibition in 1867 by Lamb and published "The House Furnisher and Decorator" between 1871 and 1872. Waterhouse, Born near Liverpool, became a pupil of the architect Richard Lane of Manchester and was influenced early in his career by both A.W.N. Pugin and Ruskin. His great public buildings include The Natural History Museum in London, Manchester Town Hall and the Manchester Assize Court, and the building of Eaton Hall for the Duke of Westminster between 1870 and 1882.