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LATE 19TH CENTURY
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A PAIR OF ENGLISH OAK GLASTONBURY CHAIRS
LATE 19TH CENTURY
One carved 'hilda Mary Davis', the other carved 'Johanes Arthurus'
Each 35in. (89cm.) high (2)
LATE 19TH CENTURY
One carved 'hilda Mary Davis', the other carved 'Johanes Arthurus'
Each 35in. (89cm.) high (2)
Literature
Numerous chairs of this type were made in the Victorian era, the supposed original now in the Bishop's Palace at Wells. Johanes Arthurus (John Arthur) is known to have been the last treasurer of the Abbey of Glaston and hung at the Abbey's dissolution in 1539 (See I.W.Preston, The Glastonbury Chair, Bristol, 2001)
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