E. W. Godwin. Made by William Watt, A rare Anglo-Japanese walnut settee or sofa.

A rare Anglo-Japanese walnut settee or sofa. A settee similar to this one appears in a drawing for furniture that was commissioned originally designed for the Earl of Limerick for Dromore Castle. The settee/sofa is illustrated in William Watt's Art furniture catalogue 1877.Pl 15 and sold for £10.10s od.

A similar example of the present lot is in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and Bristol Museums and Art Gallery, Bristol, UK.

Literature: Charlotte Gere and Michael Whiteway, Nineteenth-Century Design: From Pugin to Mackintosh, London, 1993, p. 134, pl. 161.

Jeremy Cooper, Victorian & Edwardian Furniture & Interiors: From The Gothic Revival To Art Nouveau, London, 1998, p. 143, fig. 338 for a drawing from the William Watt catalogue.

Susan Weber Soros, E.W. Godwin: Aesthetic Movement Architect and Designer, exh. cat., The Bard Graduate Centre for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, 1999, p. 78, fig. 3-9, p. 195, fig. 7-12 for a work on paper of designs for Dromore Castle.

Susan Weber Soros, The Secular Furniture of E.W. Godwin with Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1999, p. 98, cat. no. 119, p. 99, cat. no. 199-c.