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A set of six ash and alder dining chairs
each with wavy top-rail and pierced interlaced splat, rush seat and turned legs joined by multiple stretchers, Lancashire/Cheshire, late 18th/early 19th century
See Illustration
Chairs of this model are recorded as being made by the Bancroft family in Liverpool, Salford and Prestbury. Such a chair is illustrated in B. Cotton The English Regional Chair, 1991, Plate 69 and another in figure NW167.
Another similar chair is illustrated in C. Gilbert English Vernacular Furniture 1750-1900, Yale, 1991, p. 121, plate 195
each with wavy top-rail and pierced interlaced splat, rush seat and turned legs joined by multiple stretchers, Lancashire/Cheshire, late 18th/early 19th century
See Illustration
Chairs of this model are recorded as being made by the Bancroft family in Liverpool, Salford and Prestbury. Such a chair is illustrated in B. Cotton The English Regional Chair, 1991, Plate 69 and another in figure NW167.
Another similar chair is illustrated in C. Gilbert English Vernacular Furniture 1750-1900, Yale, 1991, p. 121, plate 195