A cherrywood and elm Mendlesham Windsor armchair, East Anglia, early 19th century

细节

A cherrywood and elm Mendlesham Windsor armchair, East Anglia, early 19th century
the back with ball decorated top-rail and lower rail with a central X-shaped splat, the arms on incurved supports, on ring-turned legs joined by stretchers
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拍品专文

The form of this particular chair with its X-splat is very unusual and as such no comparable example is available in Bernard Cotton The English Regional Chair, Woodbridge 1990. The scribe lines on the seat edge where the arm is morticed, is diagnostic of the Mendlesham group of chairs (see Bernard Cotton The English Regional Chair, Woodbridge 1990, p. 244, fig. EA105). This chair would, therefore, appear to demonstrate the crossover between the Mendlesham tradition and the East Anglia tradition.