A TABLE that was placed on a pile of rubbish at a Salisbury house clearance is set to fetch thousands of pounds at auction after it was identified as a rare antique.
The side table was destined for the tip after one of its four legs had snapped off.
But an eagle-eyed expert realised the 2ft-tall piece was the work of renowned arts and crafts designer E W Godwin and dated back to 1878.
The Anglo-Japanese-style table, made from walnut, will now go under the hammer at auction where it could fetch up to £10,000.
The table would have been one of up to ten designed by Englishman Godwin and exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1878.
It ended up in the ownership of a family from Salisbury where it was recently salvaged by auctioneers.
Michael Jeffrey, of Woolley & Wallis auction house, said: "It was in a storeroom of a private apartment on top of a stack of furniture that was earmarked for the tip."
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