Windsor armchair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1840 - 1860
Materials
Elm, ash, beech
Measurements
90 cm (H); 55 cm (W); 43 cm (D)
Place of origin
Buckingham
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Grantham House, Lincolnshire
NT 493533
Summary
An elm, ash and beech Windsor Armchair, Buckinghamshire, mid 19th century. With a pierced wheelback splat, shaped arms and a solid saddle seat raised on turn legs tied by an H stretcher. For comparable examples and extensive research see Bernard Cotton 'The English Regional Chair' pp.49-60.
Provenance
Bequest of the contents of Grantham House to the National Trust in 1944.
References
Cotton 1990: Bernard D. Cotton, The English Regional Chair, Woodbridge 1990, pp.46-56