An elm and beechwood Windsor armchair

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An elm and beechwood Windsor armchair
with hoop-back and flattened arm-rests, raised on incurved supports, with turned legs joined by stretchers, the hoop initialled R.B., the seat stamped Alsop, West Country, late 19th century
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Uriah Alsop
A father and son of this name are recorded as cabinet makers in Broadmead, Bristol between 1851 and 1900. See Bernard Cotton The English Regional Chair, 1990, page 270

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