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A set of eight ash ladder-back dining chairs
including a gentleman's and lady's armchair, each with perched top-rail and arched splats, straw seats and turned legs joined by multiple stretchers, re-seated, South Lancashire, early 19th century
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This distinctive variety of bar-top ladderback chair is linked with the South Lancashire coalmining village of Billinge and the immediate surrounding area. For a detailed account of this tradition see B.Cotton The English Regional Chair, Woodbridge, 1990, p.386.
A similar set of dining chairs was sold in these rooms March 1st 1995, lot 690 (8)
including a gentleman's and lady's armchair, each with perched top-rail and arched splats, straw seats and turned legs joined by multiple stretchers, re-seated, South Lancashire, early 19th century
See Illustration
This distinctive variety of bar-top ladderback chair is linked with the South Lancashire coalmining village of Billinge and the immediate surrounding area. For a detailed account of this tradition see B.Cotton The English Regional Chair, Woodbridge, 1990, p.386.
A similar set of dining chairs was sold in these rooms March 1st 1995, lot 690 (8)