Although displaying the general design of a Thames Valley Windsor chair of circa 1830, this chair has features that indicate that it was probably made by a Northamptonshire maker, for example the use of elaborately turned legs of the style seen here. Northampton stands at a point between the two great chair making traditions of the Thames Valley and the North Eastern counties of Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire. Chairs made here often embody features from both areas and in this example the use of two separate back splats, common in the North East tradition, are used in contrast to the one piece splat common to the Thames Valley

Dr. B.D. Cotton September 2002