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A LATE-VICTORIAN AESTHETIC MOVEMENT OPEN ARMCHAIR, CIRCA 1875
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ATTRIBUTED TO E.W. GODWIN (1833-1886)
A LATE-VICTORIAN AESTHETIC MOVEMENT OPEN ARMCHAIR, CIRCA 1875
probably manufactured by William Watt, ebonized wood with open lattice back, green velvet upholstery
30 in. (76.2 cm.) high; 23 in. (58.4 cm.) wide; 20 ½ in. (52.1 cm.) deep
A LATE-VICTORIAN AESTHETIC MOVEMENT OPEN ARMCHAIR, CIRCA 1875
probably manufactured by William Watt, ebonized wood with open lattice back, green velvet upholstery
30 in. (76.2 cm.) high; 23 in. (58.4 cm.) wide; 20 ½ in. (52.1 cm.) deep
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Phillip's, London, 19 October 1989, lot 354.
Literature
cf. S. Weber Soros, The Secular Furniture of E. W. Godwin, New Haven, 1999, p. 113, pl 137; p. 122, pl 157-158 for related examples.
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