Chair, c.1720–40

Oak

This chair is of a type attributed to south Wales.

Victor Chinnery Catalogue

Description

An oak backstool, the plain scrolled crest flanked by ball finials above a single fielded panel set in a moulded frame between turned uprights, the plank seat with an applied edge-moulding and raised on a scrolled fore-rail with central ball pendant finial above two turned horizontal stretchers flanked by turned legs and raised on extended scroll feet.

English or Welsh, c.1710-25.

Dimensions

H: 42in  W: 19in  D: 18in

Condition

Generally good. Minor worm damage to rear of panel and upper finials.

Provenance & References

Purchased from Tobias Jellinek, London, 2 September 1997.

Comments

For broadly similar English and Welsh chairs, see Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture – The British Tradition, Woodbridge 1979, p. 281, Figs. 3:143-4 and p. 519, Fig. 4:243.

Baroque/Vernacular