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A set of eight ash ladder-back dining chairs
each with arched bar top-rail and arched splats, straw seat and turned legs joined by stretchers, including one armchair, one top-rail and one leg replaced, minor repairs, Lancashire, early 19th century
See Illustration
This distinctive, high quality variety of bar-top ladder-back chair is linked with the South Lancashire coal mining village of Billinge and the immediate surrounding area. For a detailed account of this tradition see B.Cotton The English Regional Chair, Woodbridge 1990, p.386 (8)
each with arched bar top-rail and arched splats, straw seat and turned legs joined by stretchers, including one armchair, one top-rail and one leg replaced, minor repairs, Lancashire, early 19th century
See Illustration
This distinctive, high quality variety of bar-top ladder-back chair is linked with the South Lancashire coal mining village of Billinge and the immediate surrounding area. For a detailed account of this tradition see B.Cotton The English Regional Chair, Woodbridge 1990, p.386 (8)