拍品專文
The first chair's pattern relates to the 'Oliver Goldsmith Chair' in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated in Dr B. Cotton, The English Regional Chair, Woodbridge, 1990, p. 44, fig. TV9.
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THAMES VALLEY, LATE 18TH CENTURY
細節
AN ASH, ELM AND BEECH WINDSOR ARMCHAIR
Thames Valley, late 18th Century
The eared toprail, pierced splat, outscrolled arms and incurved arm-supports above a solid shaped seat, on ring-turned baluster legs joined by an H-shaped stretcher, the underside inscribed in white paint 187/4944' and in chalk '15', previously painted
AND AN ASH, ELM AND FRUITWOOD WINDSOR ARMCHAIR
West Country
The shaped toprail and comb back with solid splat, above a shaped seat, on cabriole legs joined by H-shaped stretchers, on pad feet, the underside inscribed in white paint '162/', restorations and replacements, the arm bow, spindles and seat late 18th Century (2)
Thames Valley, late 18th Century
The eared toprail, pierced splat, outscrolled arms and incurved arm-supports above a solid shaped seat, on ring-turned baluster legs joined by an H-shaped stretcher, the underside inscribed in white paint 187/4944' and in chalk '15', previously painted
AND AN ASH, ELM AND FRUITWOOD WINDSOR ARMCHAIR
West Country
The shaped toprail and comb back with solid splat, above a shaped seat, on cabriole legs joined by H-shaped stretchers, on pad feet, the underside inscribed in white paint '162/', restorations and replacements, the arm bow, spindles and seat late 18th Century (2)
來源
The Parker Knoll records state that the first chair was acquired from Harris on 7 January 1919, for £3.10.0.
出版
A.E. Reviers Hopkins, 'Eighteenth Century Windsor Chairs', Old Furniture, November, 1928, illustrated p. 153, fig. 11.