LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF CELTIC ASH LOW-BACK WINDSOR ARMCHAIRS
LATE 18TH CENTURY
Of particularly large proportions, each with figured seat and inswept front arm supports
Each 28 in. (71 cm.) high; 29 in. (74 cm.) wide; the seat 19½ in. (49 cm.) deep; 17½ in. (44 cm.) high; at the centre point 2 in. (5 cm.) thick (2)

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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis. This lot will be removed to an off-site warehouse at the close of business on the day of sale - 2 weeks free storage

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These remarkable Windsors are unusual and charismatic in many senses including their originality and imposing size. They show little evidence of the hard daily use which many windsors of this type undergo, which suggests that they were made to stand in a sheltered space, perhaps in the hallway or gallery of a large house where they may have formed part of a longer set. Their construction is entirely consistent with Celtic windsors, including turned legs without stretchers and spindles which pass through the arms and back. However, an exact region of origin is not possible to determine, although an archive search of windsors from Wales, the West Country and the West of Scotland shows a closely similar example in the collection of the Highland Folk Museum, Kingussie, Inverness-shire, which was collected from a croft at Balmacara, Ross-shire in the 1940's.
Dr. B. Cotton, April 2008.