LATE 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY LINCOLNSHIRE

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.