Chair, c.1670–1700

Oak

This type of chair is described in late seventeenth-century documents as ‘turned all over’. It is one of a set of six.

Victor Chinnery Catalogue

Description

A set of six oak backstools, each with turned finials above a twist-turned frame enclosing five twist-turned slats, the two-plank panelled seats enclosed in ball-turned frames and supported on conforming front and back legs, fore stretchers, side stretchers and lower H-stretchers, the legs extended to form feet.

English, c.1675-1710.

Dimensions

H: 39½in W: 18½in D: 17in

Condition

Generally good. With minor patching. Three chairs with strengthening patches attached under the seat panels.

Provenance & References

Purchased from G Randall, 4 January 1988.

A walnut backstool of similar pattern is illustrated by Percy Macquoid in A History of English Furniture, London 1904, Vol. II (The Age of Walnut), p. 2, Fig. 1.

Comments

Vernacular/Baroque