Sale 8563
London, South Kensington
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3 November 1999
Price realised
GBP 437
Estimate
A yew-wood, elm and ash Windsor chair, Lincolnshire, early 19th century with pierced splat centred with a roundel, shallow square seat and ring-turned legs joined by a crinolene stretcher See Illustration
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Chairs of this design were made by makers in Lincolnshire. See Dr. B Cotton The English Regional Chair Woodbridge, 1991, p. 121-124, for a discussion on this tradition and fig. NE42 for an example made by T. or J Marsh of Sleadford (fl.1822-1861).
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