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A MATCHED SET OF TEN 'MACCLESFIELD' ASH LADDERBACK CHAIRS
Lot 89

A MATCHED SET OF TEN 'MACCLESFIELD' ASH LADDERBACK CHAIRS

MID-19TH CENTURY, BY C. LEICESTER

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GBP 3,720

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A MATCHED SET OF TEN 'MACCLESFIELD' ASH LADDERBACK CHAIRS
MID-19TH CENTURY, BY C. LEICESTER
Including a pair of armchairs, each with a perched turned top rail and turned uprights, a rush seat and tapering legs with stretchers, two chairs stamped C.LEICESTER, minor differences, the seat edgings replaced. (10)

Specialist note

These chairs exhibit several features associated with Charles Leicester of Macclesfield, among them the distinctive top-rail and the back uprights that curve from seat level. See Bernard D. Cotton, The English Regional Chair, Woodbridge, 1990.