Windsor armchair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1860
Materials
Beech and ash with elm seat.
Measurements
102 x 59 x 46 cm
Place of origin
High Wycombe
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 882859
Summary
An ash and beech high-back Windsor armchair, High Wycombe, circa 1860. With bar top-rail and ' lath-back ', ring-turned under arm supports and elm seat on ring-turned legs joined by an H-stretcher.
Full description
Commonly thought of as late 19th century, designs for this model of chair actually appear in a trade catalogue as early as 1849, published by Edwin Skull, chair manufacturer of High Wycombe and then continued to be made in large quantities over the next 60 years. See Bernard Cotton, 'The English Regional chair', Woodbridge 1990, page 86 - 90 for a more detailed discussion.
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