I recently came across this rare and handsome brace of painted Windsors or forest chairs.
Mid-eighteenth-century low-back forest chairs.
These low-back chairs are very similar in many respects to the comb-back Windsor and double bow Windsor chair I made some years ago.
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Pegs and 'Tails
Are the arms steam bent or made from pieces?
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The arms are made in three pieces.
JP
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I went back to re-visit the chair you made. I miss the cheerful backdrop of the Lemon Gallery.
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Have never heard the term “forest chairs”…what is the reference??
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My books are still packed away in boxes, but one reference would be Michael Harding-Hill’s, Windsor Chairs: An Illustrated Celebration, Antique Collectors’ Club, 1999.
JP
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It is always a great pleasure to see these chairs with their original paint – a most rare occurrence. One sees American Windsor chairs, occasionally, with original paint.
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