Windsor - chairs - sets of 6
Chest of drawers. Until the mid-19th century, the standard chest had either four long, or three long and two short drawers. Rarely were there any exceptions to this rule. A chest with three drawers, or a series of small upper drawers, purporting to be Georgian, will probably have been converted from a chest-on-chest or tallboy. It is true that the 18th century commode often contain two long deep drawers, but this was a much grander and more decorative piece altogether, intended for drawing rooms, not bedrooms, and in any case was usually made to stand on legs. The standard chest of drawers continued to be made throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries (some Edwardian pine chests even had bracket feet), but variations were introduced during the mid-Victorian period, with some chests having seven or more drawers usually a deep hat drawer and smaller glove compartments. Chests with barley-sugar twist or split bobbin-turned supports date from the mid-19th century.
Windsor chair. Probably the strongest, most enduring and most influential of all the wooden cottage chairs. The Windsor chair, the prototype of most stick or spindle chairs, has been made since the 17th century.
With the spread of the Empire, the Windsor chair has been taken in all its diverse forms to every corner of the English-speaking world. In Britain, these chairs have always been manufactured in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, hence the term 'High Wycombe chairs'. The derivation of the name Windsor is uncertain and suggestions that it was bestowed by George III, who ordered some, have been largely dismissed.
Loudon, in his Encyclopedia describes Windsor chairs as 'one of the best kitchen chairs in general use in the midland counties of England' and his general description is still one of the most succinct:
The seat is of elm, somewhat hollowed out; the outer rail of the back is of ash, in one piece, bent to the sort of horseshoe form shown in the figure by being previously heated or steamed; its ends are then inserted in two holes bored though the seat and are wedged firmly in from the underside. An additional support is given to the back by two round rails ... more...
With the spread of the Empire, the Windsor chair has been taken in all its diverse forms to every corner of the English-speaking world. In Britain, these chairs have always been manufactured in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, hence the term 'High Wycombe chairs'. The derivation of the name Windsor is uncertain and suggestions that it was bestowed by George III, who ordered some, have been largely dismissed.
Loudon, in his Encyclopedia describes Windsor chairs as 'one of the best kitchen chairs in general use in the midland counties of England' and his general description is still one of the most succinct:
The seat is of elm, somewhat hollowed out; the outer rail of the back is of ash, in one piece, bent to the sort of horseshoe form shown in the figure by being previously heated or steamed; its ends are then inserted in two holes bored though the seat and are wedged firmly in from the underside. An additional support is given to the back by two round rails ... more...
3 item(s) found:
A matched set of six 18th century Thames Valley Windsor armchairs, in various timbers including yew, elm and beech, the shaped top rails above variously shaped and pierced splats, on cabriole legs
A matched set of six 19th century low back Windsor armchairs in various woods with variously pierced splats and turned legs
A set of six 19th century elm wheel back Windsor chairs, each with a bowed spindle back and a pierced wheel splat, raised on turned tapering legs United by cross stretchers