A particularly large fruitwood and elm Windsor armchair, High Wycombe, circa 1840-80

A particularly large fruitwood and elm Windsor armchair, High Wycombe, circa 1840-80 The back with an ornately fretted splat and two curved laths each side, below a bold curved shaped stay rail, the scroll-ended arms supported on three elaborately turned supports, elm saddle-seat, on large ball and baluster-turned legs, with vase-shaped feet, and connected by an H-form turned stretcher with double cross-stretchers, the rear edge of the seat stamped with the maker's initials 'W.W', 71cm wide x 68cm deep x 122cm high, (27 1/2in wide x 26 1/2in deep x 48in high) Fußnoten Literature: Bernard Cotton, The English Regional chair (2000) illustrates two comparable Windsor armchairs, figures TV193 & TV194, p. 88. The auther notes that the chairs embody 'the highest levels of constructional quality in producing what was probably a commemorative chair'. Examples of this type of chair were advertised by many of the Wycombe chair manufacturers, see for example the catalogue of Glenister and Gibbons, Oxford Road, High Wycombe, [fl.1865-79], a plate of which is illustrated ibid. p. 95. Chair no. 124 which resembles this lot, cost £1 at the time the catalogue was published.