Windsor chairs of this design with four turned legs formed the earliest group of Windsors, and preceded those with cabriole legs. Similar chairs were either painted green to be used as garden chairs, or left unpainted for use indoors, as in the case of this example. The duality of possible use may help to explain why relatively expensive woods such as cherrywood and walnut are found in painted chairs from this period, since it is likely that chairs were made to fit either purpose. Windsor chairs from the first period of production are extremely rare, since natrual wear and tear over more than two hundred and fifty years have resulted in the survival of only a very few.

See Dr B.D. Cotton, The English Regional Chair, Woodbridge, 1991, page 43, fig. TV16 for a closely similar example.