Antique Occasional Table by Collinson & Lock
£2,900
A Victorian occasional table with circular top inlaid with concentric stringing above a flower-head inlaid frieze on slender tapering legs splaying slightly below an undertier; stamped ‘COLLINSON & LOCK, LONDON 7289’
Publications on Renaissance ornament in the 1870’s promoted the fashion for certosa style ivory inlay as featured in G.J Oakeshott’s Details and Ornaments of the Renaissance, 1888. Stephen Webb was perhaps the most celebrated designer of this intarsia or certosa inlay and was employed from the mid-1880’s by Messrs Collinson & Lock of Fleet Street and Oxford Street.
Frank Weightman Collinson and George James Sheridan Lock took over the firm of Herring & Co. in Fleet Street, where they had worked, in 1870 and changed its name to Collinson & Lock (late Herring) Est.1782 and, in 1885, moved to Oxford Street. At the height of their success they produced designs by Bruce Talbert, T. E. Colcutt, H. W. Batley, C. L. Eastlake, R. N. Shaw, J. Moyr Smith and Stephen Webb. The partnership split in 1897, and the company of Collinson & Lock was absorbed into Gillow’s.
