A STAINED PINE 'GREEK' CHAIR

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A STAINED PINE 'GREEK' CHAIR
AFTER A DESIGN BY E.W.GODWIN, POSSIBLY MANUFACTURED BY WILLIAM WATT, 1880S

Slender uprights with small ball finials, angled back with narrow slats, slat seat, tapering faceted legs.

Provenance

E.W.Godwin, thence by descent to the present owner.

Exhibited

Japan and Britain. An Aesthetic Dialogue, Barbican Art Gallery, London 1991, Cat No. 109, p. 99 (illustrated)

Lot Essay

Cf. The Building News, December 18th 1885 (reproduced right).
The notation on the sketches indicate clearly that Godwin had conceived of a number of variations on the basic form, including a version with "upright laths" in the back, as in the present chair.

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