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Rare 19th Century Yew, Elm and Ash Windsor Chair C. 1850
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Rare 19th Century Yew, Elm and Ash Windsor Chair C. 1850

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A most attractive and unusual Windsor chair made of yew wood, elm and ash and with wonderful colour and in superb original condition.

Traditionally the saddle seats were made in elm because elm trees grow to such a size and girth that a wide and deep seat can be made from a single board. Ash is pliable, it can be steamed and bent to form hooped backs and arms, and easily turned to form legs and supports. The chairs could be partly made where the wood was felled and dried, on simple lathes working hand sawn timbers.

Much of this chair is made in elm – not just the seat but the bow arm and fine splat, with an ash hoop and spindles. The turned arm supports, legs and stretchers are in solid yew wood with lovely dark burred surface and this very dense, strong wood with so much character and colour.

A superb chair, very solid and capacious, all original.

Dimensions are:

20.5 inches wide, 21 inches deep and 43.25 inches high.

Floor to seat is 15.5 inches.

For metric please multiply by 2.5

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Webberley Antiques has dated this Antique Yew Windsor Chair to the 1850s.

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A most attractive and unusual Windsor chair made of yew wood, elm and ash and with wonderful colour and in superb original condition.
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Traditionally the saddle seats were made in elm because elm trees grow to such a size and girth that a wide and deep seat can be made from a single board.
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Ash is pliable, it can be steamed and bent to form hooped backs and arms, and easily turned to form legs and supports. The chairs could be partly made where the wood was felled and dried, on simple lathes working hand sawn timbers.

fig 1. A 19th-century English Windsor armchair featuring a high hoop back with spindles, a central pierced splat, a contoured elm saddle seat, and turned wooden legs.
fig 1. Rare 19th Century Yew, Elm and Ash Windsor Chair C. 1850

Much of this chair is made in elm – not just the seat but the bow arm and fine splat, with an ash hoop and spindles. The turned arm supports, legs and stretchers are in solid yew wood with lovely dark burred surface and this very dense, strong wood with so much character and colour.

A superb chair, very solid and capacious, all original.

Dimensions are:

20.5 inches wide, 21 inches deep and 43.25 inches high.

Floor to seat is 15.5 inches.

For metric please multiply by 2.5

Date of Manufacture

Webberley Antiques has dated this Antique Yew Windsor Chair to the 1850s.

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Archive I A 19th-century English Windsor armchair featuring a high hoop back with spindles, a central pierced splat, a contoured elm saddle seat, and turned wooden legs.

Rare 19th Century Yew, Elm and Ash Windsor Chair c. 1850

Archive II A 19th-century English Windsor armchair featuring a high hoop back with spindles, a central pierced splat, a contoured elm saddle seat, and turned wooden legs. View II
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Archive VI A 19th-century English Windsor armchair featuring a high hoop back with spindles, a central pierced splat, a contoured elm saddle seat, and turned wooden legs. View VI
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A 19th-century English Windsor armchair featuring a high hoop back with spindles, a central pierced splat, a contoured elm saddle seat, and turned wooden legs.
Rare 19th Century Yew, Elm and Ash Windsor Chair c. 1850
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A 19th-century English Windsor armchair featuring a high hoop back with spindles, a central pierced splat, a contoured elm saddle seat, and turned wooden legs.
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A Windsor chair is a traditional form of wooden seating where the back spindles and legs are inserted into drilled mortise holes in a solid wooden seat. Originating in England during the 18th and 19th centuries, these chairs were handcrafted by regional woodturners using locally sourced native hardwoods.

Traditional English Windsor chairs often combine multiple native timbers selected for specific physical properties, such as elm for the shaped saddle seat, steam-bent yew or ash for the outer hoop bow, and turned ash or beech for the legs and spindles.

Authentic 19th-century examples feature hand-shaped solid saddle seats displaying pit-saw or adze marks, hand-turned legs secured with wedge-tenon joints visible on top of the seat, and signs of natural oxidisation and surface wear consistent with age.

A Windsor chair serves as an effective accent piece when positioned beside a fireplace, inside an entryway, or paired with a minimalist desk to introduce warm timber textures and historical form into modern schemes.

Dust the timber surfaces regularly with a clean cloth and apply a quality beeswax polish twice annually along the wood grain, keeping the furniture away from direct radiator heat to prevent drying or splitting of the solid timber.
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