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A West Country ash windsor armchair
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A West Country ash windsor armchair

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

细节
A West Country ash windsor armchair
Early 19th Century
With a hooped back
See Illustration
注意事项
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拍品专文

Individualistic Windsor chairs of this general type, originally painted blue or green, have the hand made qualities of chairs associated with Cornish manufacture, including the use of broad, straight-fronted seats, back spindles shaped with a draw knife rather than being turned, and often, as in this case, with the inclusion of cleft, curved sections as front under-arm supports. However, painted Windsors of this type are also found in South Yorkshire and Wales, which may be explained by Cornish miners moving to other mining areas where there was work and taking their chairs with them, or indeed chairmaking in their new area of settlement.