A walnut corner armchair, Scottish, late 18th Century
A walnut corner armchair, Scottish, late 18th Century

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A walnut corner armchair, Scottish, late 18th Century
with a horseshoe shaped arm rail supported by turned uprights and with pierced vase shaped splats, with a drop in straw seat on square tapered legs joined by an X-shaped stretcher
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This walnut armchair has design elements which strongly suggest that it was made in the Lowland Scottish tradition. These include the diagonistic leg-taper profile which includes two vertical outside faces and two internal sloping faces. This Scottish feature is combined with turned cross stretchers which formed part of the vocabulary of fashionable chair design from Lowland Scotland during the second half of the 18th century and into the first quarter of the 19th century

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