Bobbin Turned Side Chair by E.W. Godwin, Circa 1870
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A simulated rosewood side chair attributed to E.W. Godwin.
Raised on bobbin turned front legs and outswept back legs with a cane seat. The rectangular back supported by bobbin turned uprights with slender turned spindles between. Made in simulated rosewood on beech. The cane seat recently replaced.
This side chairs design represents a lighter version of bobbin-turned chairs from the seventeenth century. Bobbin turning, revived in the 1820s and popular until late in the nineteenth century, was not common in Godwin’s designs of the 1860s and 1870s. It does appear, however, in his sketchbooks dating from the late 1870s (V&A PD E.504-1963) on the back legs of a chair he designed as part of a Jacobean dining suite for William Watt’s Art Furniture (CR 560). Bobbin-turned legs reappear in a study chair made by William Watt that was exhibited in April 1885 and which also carried a panel back.
For other examples see references from National Trust Smallhythe Place and Bristol Museums and Art Gallery.
122.I–III. Side Chairs
Ca. 1870, attributed to E. W. Godwin
Stained beech; cane seats
Maker unidentified
32 ½ × 17 ½ × 15 ½ in. (82.4 × 44.2 × 39 cm)
Originally in the possession of the designer and Ellen Terry; by descent to Edith Craig; by bequest to the Bristol Museums and Art Gallery (N4500)
Literature: Bristol Museums and Art Gallery 1976, no. 5
122.IV–V. Side Chairs
Ca. 1870, attributed to E. W. Godwin
Maker unidentified
Stained beech; cane seats
33 ½ × 16 ½ × 15 in. (85 × 42.5 × 38.1 cm)
Gift of Donald Sinden, The National Trust, Ellen Terry Memorial Museum, Smallhythe Place (SMA/P/120 a, b)
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