Fine Early Georgian Comb Back Windsor Armchair

Fine Early Georgian Comb Back Windsor Armchair
With Shaped Crest and Saddled Seat Raised on "Axe Handle" Legs
Well Patinated Honey Coloured Ash and Elm
English, c.1770

42 ¼" high x 22 ¾" wide x 17" deep


Related Literature: Thomas Crispin; "The English Windsor Chair"; pub: Alan Sutton Stroud, 1992. Page 65, Plate 2:30 Illustrates and describes a twin saddle-seated settee of closely similar design.

A classic early Windsor, closely similar to chairs in the Bodleian Library in Oxford and chairs depicted in C18th paintings. This example has a delicately shaped "double dome" crest rail with moulded lower edge above a run of ten upper spindles, which socket through the single piece bentwood arm-bow. The exceptionally generous and well saddled seat is raised on four unusual "axe handle" shaped legs. This example is in very good overall condition and benefits from an appealing pale, well burnished, honey colour. The legs have been restored at the base to raise and level the chair for functional purposes, with the axe handle form extended, as per references. This is a delightfully restrained, well drawn and economic design, timeless in appeal and with a natural graphic quality. Large early Windsor's of this type are now very scarce.


An 18th century elm seated stick back hedge chair

SH: 17"

Ref: 9545