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Of the others, one is in Manchester City Art Gallery, a second was formerly with the Fine Art Society, London (with a foliate design inlaid into the top and the firm's label; acquired from Phillips, London, 25/09/2001, lot 5), and a third was offered by Woolley &amp; Wallis, Salisbury, 03/06/2009, lot 189.\r\n\n","historicalContext":"The firm of James Lamb exhibited a drawing room at the Manchester Jubilee Exhibition of 1887 which included a tea table of the same design as W.9-1986. The exhibit was praised and illustrated in <u>The Art Journal</u>, 1887, p. 381, 'Furniture in The Manchester Exhibition', 'The tea-table, by Mr. James Lamb, does not of course adequately illustrate the capabilities of a firm which has long held a distinguished position in the north of England. The carved wood panels which were reproduced in our Jubilee Number gave, however, a fair idea of their most ambitious and distinguished work, and the tea-table is worth reproducing for its successful solution of a familiar problem, and its combination of lightness with strength.'","briefDescription":"Table designed by Charles Edward Horton and made by James Lamb, Manchester. 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