A MAHOGANY WINDSOR CHAIR

LATE 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY LINCOLNSHIRE

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A MAHOGANY WINDSOR CHAIR
Late 19th Century, probably Lincolnshire
With reeded shaped toprail above a vase-shaped splat flanked by spindels and spirally-reeded stiles, the outcurved arms filled with spindels above a solid seat, on spirally-reeded baluster legs joined by a curved stretcher, stamped 'M', one arm support and the stretcher with restored breaks

來源

Anonymous sale, in these Rooms, 26 April 1990, lot 123 (£2,200).

拍品專文

This unusual Windsor chair can be classed amongst the repertoire of Lincolnshire chairs, unique in the Windsor chair tradition for their rejection of the bow or hoop back style in favour of a 'comb' rail (see B. Cotton, The English Regional Chair, Woodbridge, 1990). The chair demonstrates the late 19th Century taste for Grecian ornament with the toprail imitating an Ionic capital surmounting the antique vase-shaped splat, an example of the Regency Revival spreading to vernacular furniture.