A GEORGE III PROVINCIAL ASH AND FRUITWOOD ARMCHAIR
Lot 68

A GEORGE III PROVINCIAL ASH AND FRUITWOOD ARMCHAIR

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Closed23 May 2013

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GBP 2,125

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A GEORGE III PROVINCIAL ASH AND FRUITWOOD ARMCHAIR
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
With a pierced ladder back and shaped arms above a rush seat on turned legs joined by stretchers
32¼ in. (82 cm.) high; 23 in. (58.5 cm.) wide; 18 in. (46 cm.) deep

Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 17 January 2006, lot 285

Specialist note

This chair shows close similarities with the work of John Kerry of Evesham. See Bernard D. Cotton, The English Regional Chair, Woodbridge, 1990, p.294, fig.WM14.
Related chairs, called 'fiddle back' apparently because of the open fret shapes featured on violins, were illustrated in Gillows Coloured Sketch Book of the 1770s (Susan Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London, Woodbridge, 2008, vol.I, p.155, pl.104).