A GEORGE III PROVINCIAL ASH AND FRUITWOOD ARMCHAIR

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).