Lot 354
ATTRIBUTED TO E. W. GODWIN (1833-1886), PROBABLY MADE BY WILLIAM WATT
ARMCHAIR, CIRCA 1880
Auction: Day Two: 22 April 2021 | From 11:00
£3,750
Description
ebonised wood, with caned seat, back and arm panels, and with later cushions upholstered in period fabric circa 1880
Dimensions
61.5cm wide, 90cm high, approx. 75cm deep
Footnote
Literature: Soros, Susan The Secular Furniture of E. W. Godwin, Yale 1999, p. 96, no. 116 and p. 88, no. 107, where this armchair is illustrated.
Provenance: Paul Reeves, London
Property from an Important Private Collection
Note: An easy chair version of the wicker chair that Godwin designed for his own use in 1867, and later for Dromore Castle.