Spindle-back chair
Category
Furniture
Date
1800 - 1869
Materials
Stained oak, rush
Measurements
100 x 49 x 39 cm
Place of origin
Lancashire
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Wightwick Manor, West Midlands
NT 1288357.2.2
Summary
A stained oak spindle-back side chair, one of a pair, part of a group of three comprising an armchair and two side chairs, Lancashire/Cheshire, early/mid-19th century, with shaped top rail and two plain horizontal bars joined by two rows of decoratively turned spindles, all between a pair of uprights with turned tops, the rush seat with a pair of turned front legs terminating in pad feet on domes, the front legs joined by a turned stretcher, two spindle stretchers to each side, the rear square-section legs joined by a single spindle stretcher.