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Summer Exhibition
2010
The
Arts & Crafts Exhibits
A rare ebonised Anglo-Japanese two tier side table designed by E W Godwin and attributed to William Watt. The top with a reeded edge above an under tier, on ring turned legs joined by stretchers, stamped to the underside ‘1210’.
Circa 1872.
68cm high, 87cm wide & 51cm deep.
Exhibited: Whistler and Godwin, 2001, exhibit 53, The Fine Art Society, London.
See: Page 158, Cat. 224a, “Secular Furniture of E W Godwin”, Susan Webber Soros.
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Edward William Godwin (1833 - 1886)
Born in Bristol, E W Godwin began training as a civil engineer and was articled to William Armstrong, an architect-cum-engineer and friend of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. He set up his own office in 1854 and travelled to Ireland to assist his brother, also a civil engineer, with a design for a railway bridge.
He met William Burges in 1858 and they became friends. They visited Ireland together in the 1860s when Godwin began work on Dromore and Glenbeigh Towers. His first major commission, Northampton Town Hall (1861), was based on Ruskin's Stones of Venice.
Godwin was among the group who made purchases of Japanese objects after the 1862 exhibition and he was very influenced by Japanese culture, becoming a pioneer of the Anglo-Japanese style. He designed angular undecorated furniture often consciously intended to be cheap to manufacture. His designs for applied art included furniture for the Art Furniture Co. and later William Watt, Gillow's of Lancaster, James Peddle, and Collinson & Lock, who paid him a retainer from 1872 to 1874.
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