Details
An oak Turner's chair
of triangular section, the back with an incised lozenge and rounded top-rail, on twin supports tapering to ring-turned uprights, with bobbin-turned arms and solid seat, on turned legs joined by stretchers, bearing a label John Starkey
Cabinet Maker, Upholsterer and Dealer in Antique Furniture, 60 and 62 Smith Street, Warwick.
Sole Maker, Authorised by the Master and Brethern of Earl of Leycester's Hospital " Copies of the Old Saxon Chair", which is there exhibited
of triangular section, the back with an incised lozenge and rounded top-rail, on twin supports tapering to ring-turned uprights, with bobbin-turned arms and solid seat, on turned legs joined by stretchers, bearing a label John Starkey
Cabinet Maker, Upholsterer and Dealer in Antique Furniture, 60 and 62 Smith Street, Warwick.
Sole Maker, Authorised by the Master and Brethern of Earl of Leycester's Hospital " Copies of the Old Saxon Chair", which is there exhibited
Further details
An example of this chair bearing the label of John Starkey and dated to between 1892 and 1904 is exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum, item no 8 in the gallery entitled Morris & Co, and late Victorian revivals.
John Starkey was a Warwick cabinet maker and antique dealer who is known to have sold a number of these chairs copying the example at Lord Leycester's Hospital in Warwick
John Starkey was a Warwick cabinet maker and antique dealer who is known to have sold a number of these chairs copying the example at Lord Leycester's Hospital in Warwick