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A set of eight ash solid seat chairs, Shropshire, early 19th century
each with spindle back and horizontal bar top-rail between uprights with nipple tops, on turned legs joined by multiple stretchers, one with elm seat, minor differences
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This distinctive model of spindle back chair with solid seat is attributed to the Owen family of chair-makers, of Clun Village in Southern Shropshire. Several generations of Owens were chair makers here, at least right through the 19th century and J. Owen is recorded as the last in this line when Clunton Coppice was sold in 1898 depriving Owen of his source of wood. See The English Regional Chair, Bernard Cotton, Woodbridge, 1990, p.304 & 307, for a fuller discussion of this tradition (8)
each with spindle back and horizontal bar top-rail between uprights with nipple tops, on turned legs joined by multiple stretchers, one with elm seat, minor differences
See Illustration
This distinctive model of spindle back chair with solid seat is attributed to the Owen family of chair-makers, of Clun Village in Southern Shropshire. Several generations of Owens were chair makers here, at least right through the 19th century and J. Owen is recorded as the last in this line when Clunton Coppice was sold in 1898 depriving Owen of his source of wood. See The English Regional Chair, Bernard Cotton, Woodbridge, 1990, p.304 & 307, for a fuller discussion of this tradition (8)