Windsor armchair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1850
Materials
Beech and elm.
Measurements
89 x 52 x 44 cm
Place of origin
Oxford
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 882858
Summary
A beech Windsor armchair, Oxford, circa 1850. With bar toprail, horizontal splat and ball-turned underarm supports, the elm seat on turned tapering legs joined by an H-stretcher.
Full description
The attribution to Oxford is based on recorded chairs of this model bearing the stamp of Oxford chair-makers S HAZELL OXFORD, discussed in Bernard Cotton 'The English Regional chair', Woodbridge 1990, pages 90 - 94.
References
Cotton 1990: Bernard D. Cotton, The English Regional Chair, Woodbridge 1990 Ormsbee 1962: Thomas H. Ormsbee, The Windsor Chair, New York and London 1962