Pair of Yew Wood & Elm Windsor Chairs C.1840.

Name: Pair of Yew Wood & Elm Windsor Chairs C.1840.
Brand: Antique
SKU: SA496400
Availability: SoldOut

19th century

Sold by Collinge Antiques

Description

Matched pair of mid 19th.c. Windsor armchairs c.1840. Yew wood top rails, hoops and back splats over carved elm seats. Turned arm supports and legs joined with a crinoline stretchers. With a clear stamp to the side of one seat for the workshop of George Nicholson of Rockley in Wiltshire. Excellent condition, cleaned and waxed in our workshops with great colour and patina.

A Methodist Minister, Nicholson took over the workshop of William Wheatland (also a minister and the founder of the Rockley tradition of chair making) in the hamlet of Rockley in 1830, and produced furniture there until approximately 1841.

Dimensions: width 22½", depth 22", height 35".

Year: c.1840

Physical Dimensions

Height

89cm (35.04")

Width

57cm (22.44")

Depth

56cm (22.05")

Declaration

Collinge Antiques has dated this piece to the 19th Century.

Reference Numbers

Sellingantiques Reference

SA496400

Dealers Notes

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Description

Matched pair of mid 19th.c. Windsor armchairs c.1840. Yew wood top rails, hoops and back splats over carved elm seats. Turned arm supports and legs joined with a crinoline stretchers.

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With a clear stamp to the side of one seat for the workshop of George Nicholson of Rockley in Wiltshire.

Collinge Antiques

Excellent condition, cleaned and waxed in our workshops with great colour and patina.

fig 1. Pair of Yew Wood & Elm Windsor Chairs c.1840. — fig 1. Pair of Yew Wood & Elm Windsor Chairs C.1840.

A Methodist Minister, Nicholson took over the workshop of William Wheatland (also a minister and the founder of the Rockley tradition of chair making) in the hamlet of Rockley in 1830, and produced furniture there until approximately 1841.

Dimensions: width 22½", depth 22", height 35".

Year: c.1840