Windsor armchair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1800 - circa 1830
Materials
Ash, sycamore seat.
Measurements
95. x 61. x 35.5 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 882874.1
Summary
A sycamore and ash hoop-back Windsor armchair, West Country, circa 1800-1830. One of a group of five, four of which are currently at Saltram. With a hoop toprail and a hoop arm. The upper back of seven slender spindles morticed through the toprail hoop; the lower back of twelve. The arm supports turned with multiple rings and morticed through the arm bow. The sycamore seat raised on legs with a lower ball turning and joined by an elliptical 'H'-form stretcher.
Full description
The particular features that define the West Country attribution include the seat having a straight front edge, the use of sycamore for the seat itself and the long spindles in the back being morticed through the hoop but left unpegged. This chair is illustrated in Bernard Cotton 'The English Regional chair', Woodbridge 1990, page 274, Fig SW40 and captioned 'Courtesy National Trust, Lanhydrock, Cornwall'.
Provenance
Not indigenous to the house.
References
Cotton 1990: Bernard D. Cotton, The English Regional Chair, Woodbridge 1990, page 274, Fig SW40 Ormsbee 1962: Thomas H. Ormsbee, The Windsor Chair, New York and London 1962