Windsor chair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1700 - 1750
Materials
Elm, beech, birch, paint
Measurements
93 cm (H); 56 cm (W); 38 cm (D)
Place of origin
Thames Valley
Order this imageCollection
Plas Yn Rhiw, Gwynedd
NT 647867
Summary
An elm, beech and birch comb back Windsor armchair, Thames Valley, first half of the 18th century. With traces of the original paint work, the eared top rail and bowed arm stretcher above a solid saddle seat and raised on turned legs tied by stretchers. An early example of a Windsor Armchair, which would probably have been for outside use, as many were painted. The turned leg non comb back Windsors probably pre dates the cabriole leg which was common from the 1740s. For further discussion see Cotton, G. 'The English Regional Chair'.
Provenance
The property was given to the Trust as part of the Plas yn Rhiw estate between 1950 and 1966 by Eileen, Lorna and Honora Keating in memory of their parents, John William and Constance Annie Keating.
References
Cotton 1990: Bernard D. Cotton, The English Regional Chair, Woodbridge 1990, pp,43-46