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A cherrywood and elm Mendlesham Windsor armchair
the rectangular back decorated with balls and three pierced wavy splats above a crinolene bar, on turned legs joined by stretchers, one leg and two stretchers replaced, repairs, Suffolk, early 19th century
This distinctive type of Windsor chair was, by strong oral tradition, made in the Suffolk village of Mendlesham in the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. For a detailed analysis of this chair see B. Cotton The English Regional Chair, Woodbridge 1990, p.241
the rectangular back decorated with balls and three pierced wavy splats above a crinolene bar, on turned legs joined by stretchers, one leg and two stretchers replaced, repairs, Suffolk, early 19th century
This distinctive type of Windsor chair was, by strong oral tradition, made in the Suffolk village of Mendlesham in the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. For a detailed analysis of this chair see B. Cotton The English Regional Chair, Woodbridge 1990, p.241