A yew-wood and elm rocking Windsor armchair, South Yorkshire/North Nottinghamshire, late 19th century

细节

A yew-wood and elm rocking Windsor armchair, South Yorkshire/North Nottinghamshire, late 19th century
with a burr-yew pierced fret-carved central splat and outswept arms, with ring-turned spindle gallery, shaped seat and ring-turned legs joined by stretchers, on rockers
See Illustration

拍品专文

Chairs of this type were made with turned extensions to the bottom of the legs to pass through the rockers in a way which would reliably secure such a heavy chair. In fact, any Windsor design could be made as a rocker. Allsop & Son of Worksop, Nottinghamshire (fl.1871-1887) noted on the bottom of their trade card Rockers if Required 1/- extra. (Illustrated in Dr B Cotton The English Regional Chair Woodbridge, 1991, p.177, fig. NE269). The author also illustrates a similar rocking chair as fig. NE262 which has a stencil of Allsop & Son, Worksop, Notts under the seat