A primitive West Country Windsor chair.
A prototype perhaps for the more refined windsors made in the region in the C19th, this example has a thick, shaped elm seat with four stout, hand shaped legs.
For a similar example see Cotton ‘The English Regional Chair’ fig: SW10.
English, c1800.
Measurements: H: 39.75” (101cm); H to seat: 18” (46cm); W: .25.5” (65cm); D: 22” (56cm).
