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Lot Essay
This type of chair is known as a Turner's chair, so called because each part is turned on a pole-lathe by a wood-turner. Most commonly made of ash or yew-tree, but sometimes in fruit or walnut, the earliest appearance of such chairs is lost in time but they have been recorded throughout England and Wales, Northern Europe and Scandinavia, where some of the earliest can be found in churches, dated by some historians to the 13th century.
Two similar examples are illustrated in Victor Chinnery Oak Furniture, The British Tradition, 1979, pp. 93-94, figs. 2.76 and 2.78. The same two chairs also feature in Richard Bebb Welsh Furniture 1250-1950, 2007, pp. 139-140, figs. 217 and 219, both with Welsh provenance.
Two similar examples are illustrated in Victor Chinnery Oak Furniture, The British Tradition, 1979, pp. 93-94, figs. 2.76 and 2.78. The same two chairs also feature in Richard Bebb Welsh Furniture 1250-1950, 2007, pp. 139-140, figs. 217 and 219, both with Welsh provenance.