Untitled
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1850
Materials
Alder, beech, elm
Place of origin
Buckinghamshire
Order this imageCollection
Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 1246082
Summary
A set of eight beech, elm and alder Windsor chairs, Buckinghamshire, mid-19th century. Each with an alder splat shaped and pierced with a wheel, between three slender spindles to each sides and beneath a hooped stay-rail. The saddle seat of elm and raised on four baluster- and ring-turned legs with upper waisted reel, and united by an 'H'-shaped stretcher and a rear stretcher.
Provenance
Date of acquisition not recorded; bequeathed by Margaret McEwan, The Hon. Mrs Ronald Greville (1863-1942) with Polesden Lacey, to the National Trust, in memory of her father, William McEwan (1827-1913) in 1942.