Selling a very comfortable windsor armchair from my private collection.
This has been my desk chair for years, also doubled as an attractive sculpture style chair on a single white wall at my apartment.
Purchased in Chester about 20 years ago.
A rare early 19th Century English oak and fruitwood continuous arm Windsor chair.
The continuous arm on simulated bamboo spindle supports, joined to a fruitwood seat with hollowed hand grips below, resting on bamboo simulated legs and stretchers.
All having traces of the original yellow paint with black painted nodes on spindles and legs.
‘West Country – probably Yealmpton. Featured full page colour photograph and described on page 269, The English Regional Chair by Bernard Cotton.
19th Century English elm, ash & beech high Windsor armchair, having a shaped pierced center splat, with bowed arms, resting on baluster turned legs, joined to an ‘H’ stretcher.
An exceptional 19th Century Australian eucalyptus stool. The thick plank top having good faded colour and patination (note the fiddle back grain to the sides). Supported by four original turned outswept ash legs.
A well made set of English country Hepplewhite style fruitwood dining chairs including 2 carvers. The quarter moulded top rail above a fret carved vase shaped centre splat. Resting on a classic shoe. The adjacent matching uprights having shaped arms on inward curved supports. With a timber seat resting on square quarter moulded legs joined by stretchers.
A pair of 19th Century French pine and elm stools of good proportions. The well patinated rectangular pine seats resting on rectangular out swept chamfered legs. Good faded colouring and overall wear.
A matched pair of late 19th Century English ash primitive stools. Each with front canted corners, resting on three Nullo turned gentle sprayed legs. Originally used in the Sheffield Cutlery Manufacturing trade.
The shaped oak top having well worn initials ‘W S’ also underneath resting on three outswept legs one square, one rectanglular and one hexagonal, very quirky!
George II English oak settle of small proportions.
The moulded top rail above two exceptional shaped fielded panels flanked by shaped arms on turned supports, joined to grooved support frails housing the rope cushion support, resting on turned legs joined by rectangular stretchers.
Having good overall colour and patination. Note: re-sewed the old Harrods recovering tag.
The plain moulded crest rail above a faded band of mahogany and five shaped fielded panels, flanked by shaped slab arms on turned supports, attached to the seat rail. The weaved hessian seat supporting a floating loose cushion, resting on bold front cabriole legs and bun feet.
Cheshire/South Lancashire
1750 – 1810
H. 3’ 5.5” – 105 cm
W. 6’ – 183 cm
D. 2’ – 61 cm
When dating a piece on the basis of it’s stylistic features it is vital to take into account its likely regional idiosyncrasies. Certain archaic features persisted in some regional traditions much longer than in others (for example the notched ends on boarded furniture in the West Country and the Renaissance-style carving in the Lake District). To judge this settle from the North-West by the stylistic standards of London furniture would lead to a wildly inaccurate date – certainly a much earlier one than is likely to be the case.
If, however, this piece is considered within its appropriate regional context, where features such as panelled backs, slab arms and cabriole legs survived as fashionable for an exceptionally long period, then a more realistic date is suggested.
