Artist / Maker / Factory

COLLINSON & LOCK (1870-1897)

Dimensions

28.00inch wide   52.50inch high   24.00inch deep (71.12 cm wide  133.35 cm high  60.96 cm deep)

Description

Exhibition quality rosewood and ivory inlaid display cabinet by the London cabinet makers Collinson & Lock, with impressed maker's mark and bearing the number 2441.
Stock No. 8564

The cabinet was probably designed by J.S. Lock himself ; the engraved ivory italianate arabesque chimeric figures and scrolling foliage inlay being the work of Stephen Webb who worked for the company from 1885 onwards. The distinction of his work lies as much in his adaptation of renaissance details as in the quality of his engraving. It has never been more delicately executed.

In 1897 the company of Collinson & Lock was taken over by Gillow's. Stephen Webb was later appointed Professor of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art. He was also a member of the Art Workers' Guild from 1887-1902.