Spindle-back chair
Category
Furniture
Date
1800 - 1850
Materials
Turned ash and alder, rushes
Measurements
94 x 48.5 x 38.5 cm
Place of origin
North-West of England
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Sizergh Castle, Cumbria
NT 998167.9
Summary
A chair, one of a near set of nine ash and alder rush-seated spindle-back chairs, North-West England, first half of the 19th century. Each back with two rows of finely turned spindles, the shaped stay-rail sitting between the rear uprights, the rush-seat raised on typical club legs and united by typical turned and side stretchers.
Provenance
Given by Henry Hornyold Strickland (1890 – 1975) with Sizergh Castle and its estates in 1950.