Lot Essay
The unusual form of this chair with its sharply curving top-rail has been associated with the Leicestershire area due to a solitary stamped example (see Bernard Cotton The English Regional Chair, Woodbridge, 1990, p. 135, fig.NE114), although that chair had additional features diagnostic to the East Midlands.
The chair offered here has no features to suggest other than a Thames Valley origin and the atypical unpierced splat must be attributed to an individualistic interpretation.
A similar chair was sold at
The chair offered here has no features to suggest other than a Thames Valley origin and the atypical unpierced splat must be attributed to an individualistic interpretation.
A similar chair was sold at