Spinner's chair
Category
Furniture
Date
1880 - 1900
Materials
Sycamore
Measurements
965 mm (Height)
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Rufford Old Hall, Lancashire
NT 783927
Summary
Welsh style backstool or spinning-chair in sycamore, late 19th century, on four turned stake legs; the flat octagonal seat and narrow quadrangular backboard decorated with dragons in low relief against a matt punched ground; the back pierced with an eccentric hole to provide hand-grip.