Assembled Set of Fourteen English Joined Oak Chairs 17th Century and later Comprising two armchairs and twelve backstools (side chairs), one armchair with pedimented top with scrolls above rosettes and an arched backrest carved with flowerheads and lozenges over a marquetry panel with a vase and flowers flanked by engaged pilasters, the plank seat flanked by zigzag-carved downswept arm rests, raised on turned legs joined by a box stretcher; the back of the backrest with stamped initials HR and ER. Height of backrest 45 inches (1.14 m), width 20 inches (50.8 cm), height of seat 18 inches (45.7 cm), width 18 inches (45.7 cm), depth 15 3/4 inches (40 cm), width over armrests 22 inches (55.8 cm). cf. examples of similar backstools (side chairs) from South Lancashire, V. Chinnery, Oak Furniture The British Tradition, rev. ed. 2016, pp. 440-1, figs. 4:158, 4:159, 4:163 and 4:165. C Property from the Estate of Wendy Vanderbilt Lehman
All with previous restorations, replacements and losses
Assembled Set of Fourteen English Joined Oak Chairs 17th Century and later Comprising two armchairs and twelve backstools (side chairs), one armchair with pedimented top with scrolls above rosettes and an arched backrest carved with flowerheads and lozenges over a marquetry panel with a vase and flowers flanked by engaged pilasters, the plank seat flanked by zigzag-carved downswept arm rests, raised on turned legs joined by a box stretcher; the back of the backrest with stamped initials HR and ER. Height of backrest 45 inches (1.14 m), width 20 inches (50.8 cm), height of seat 18 inches (45.7 cm), width 18 inches (45.7 cm), depth 15 3/4 inches (40 cm), width over armrests 22 inches (55.8 cm). cf. examples of similar backstools (side chairs) from South Lancashire, V. Chinnery, Oak Furniture The British Tradition, rev. ed. 2016, pp. 440-1, figs. 4:158, 4:159, 4:163 and 4:165. C Property from the Estate of Wendy Vanderbilt Lehman
All with previous restorations, replacements and losses
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