Windsor armchair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1800 - circa 1830
Materials
Ash, sycamore seat
Measurements
96 x 57.8 x 34.6 cm
Place of origin
West Country
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Saltram, Devon
NT 882874.2
Summary
A sycamore and ash hoop-back Windsor armchair, West Country, circa 1800-1830.One of a group of four at Saltram, the others at Lanhydrock, Cornwall, where these chairs originally came from. 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. West Country furniture was often decorated, and this chair has remnants of red paint.
Provenance
Transferred from Lanhydrock, Cornwall to Saltram in January 2006.
References
Ormsbee 1962: Thomas H. Ormsbee, The Windsor Chair, New York and London 1962 Cotton 1990: Bernard D. Cotton, The English Regional Chair, Woodbridge 1990, p. 274, fig. SW40.