It is rare with English Windsor seat-furniture to find provenance that more or less confirms an attribution to a particular town that was previously supported only by stylistic characteristics. The small chair-making centre of Yealmpton in south west Devon seems to have been the centre of this very specialist type of 'applied bent-arm Windosrs' where the arms are a completely separate piece and the back a single loop. In this particular case the arms are metal (see: B. D. Cotton, The English Regional Chair, WOodbridge, 1990, pp. 278-9, figs. SW54, SW55 and SW56, and T. Crispin, The English Windsor Chair, London, 1992, pp. 114-116). Yealmpton is only six miles from Plymouth, and water access to the sea was easy from Kitley Quay. Port Eliot is five miles upriver from Plymouth into Cornwall, and had its own quay. The attribution to Yealmpton is made irresistible given the combination of style and provenance