Smoker's bow
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1870
Materials
Beech, elm, ash.
Measurements
75 x 63.5 x 48 cm
Place of origin
England
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 882683
Summary
A pair of beech smoker's bow Windsor chairs, High Wycombe, circa 1870. Each with six turned spindles supporting the horse-shoe shaped arm-bow and a further two under-arm front supports, each with elm seat and bulbous turned legs with double cross-stretchers, one with legs in beech, the other in ash, one stamped with makers initials HG to the rear edge of the seat.
Full description
This model of smoker's bow closely matches a drawing that appears in the catalogue of Glenister and Gibbons of High Wycombe (fl.1865 - 79), as illustrated in Bernard Cotton 'The English Regional Chair', 1990, page 96, fig TV224, with another actual example illustrated in fig TV225, but stamped with makers initials AC. The cost of the chair at that time was 10 shillings.
Provenance
Provenance unknown for certain. Possibly acquired with the house in 1953.
References
Cotton 1990: Bernard D. Cotton, The English Regional Chair, Woodbridge 1990, Page 96, Fig TV224 + 225