A matched set of six William IV yew-wood, elm and beech Windsor chairs 2nd quarter 19th century, Thames Valley

including two armchairs, with lattice backs, the splayed legs joined by crinoline stretchers

Very good with attractive colour and patina, All of firm stance. Some typical chipping and losses on turned details of legs. One armchair with repaired join to seat with modern glue. The seat of this armchair with worm and the top surface of the right arm with old cut. The other armchair with old fragmenting and gauge on the top of the left arm and worm in the seat. One standard chair with applied metal bracket on the rear of the splat at the surmounting join in the lattice work. Slight traces of worm in seat of this chair. Two standard chairs with sympathetic replaced rear legs and one of these chairs with traces of worm in the seat.
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For example of similar chairs see Bernard D. Cotton 'The English Regional Chair' Antique Collector's Club, 1990, pp. 67-68.