18th Century Yew and Walnut Windsor Armchair

18th Century Yew and Walnut Windsor Armchair.

ENGLAND – THAMES VALLEY, 1780s.

A double bow elbow chair with features attributed to the Thames Valley region. With a centre splat fretted and unusually carved with stylised scroll ‘leaves’ and flower heads. The arms with swept back underarm supports. The shaped walnut seat supported on cabriole front legs terminating in pad feet and tied to the turned rear baluster legs by a crinoline stretcher.

In ‘Windsor Chairs: An Illustrated Celebration’, Michael Harding-Hill illustrates a ‘classic Thames Valley double bow Windsor chair’ (Antique Collectors’ Club, 2003), p.55. In the notes about this chair Harding-Hill comments that: ‘[t]he splat relates to designs published by Thomas Chippendale in The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director in 1754. The superb cabriole legs are joined to the simple rear legs by a crinoline stretcher. These highly stylised chairs are believed to be of the type that were used in the pleasure gardens, coffee houses and tea rooms in and around London and the provincial fashionable cities during the late 18th century. These and the others of this style are probably the most beautiful of all the Windsor chair family’ (ibid, p.54).

Harding-Hill also illustrates a mid 18th century elbow chair attributed to the Thames Valley region which is made of yew wood with a mahogany seat (ibid, p.66). As with our chair, the splat has carved decoration.

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