Matched pair of mid to late 19th Century English Ash and Alder wood high back broad arm Windsor chairs AA1700a

Matched pair of mid to late 19th Century English Ash and Alder wood high back broad arm Windsor chairs. Attributed to Yorkshire.

The Ash high bowed back, housing an Alder wood fret shaped center splat flanked by alder wood tapered spindles joined to bowed outswept arms with turned under arm supports and continued center splat on a figured Ash saddle seat.

Resting on outswept turned ash legs joined by an unusual double ‘H’ stretcher.

Refer: ‘The English Regional Chair’ by Bernard D. Cotton, page 200, Figure NE376

1840 – 1900

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