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Their name probably derives from the town of Windsor in Berkshire, which is situated on the river Thames and was ideally located as a distribution point for chairs made in the Thames Valley region, where many  chairs of this type were made. Windsor chairs were, however, also produced in many other areas of Britain during the 18th and 19th centuries. This example has back-splats made of yew, with a bent elm back-frame and arms, and a mahogany seat. Better-quality 18th-century Windsor chairs often had cabriole (S-shaped) front legs, as in this example. The back splat is carved to resemble the tracery of a Gothic church window.","physicalDescription":"Windsor arm chair with the back in the form of a pointed arch and the three back splats pierced with gothic tracery. The arm-bow is plain and horizontal, the under-arm supports are curved. The seat is carved out in a saddle shape, with an incised border.  The cabriole front legs are connected to the turned back legs with a bowed front stretcher and two straight stretchers.There are brackets where the front legs join the seat. The back legs are turned. 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Depth measured from front to back of seat."}],"dimensionsNote":"Measurements taken from object 24/11/2016","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"The chair was the gift of Mrs H.M. Philipson-Stow, The Old Vicarage, Farnham, Surrey, in 1954\nIt is not known when and from whom it was acquired. \r\n\nIt was on loan to Brighton Museum in 1975.\n\r\nRepairs to right front leg and stretcher carried out by a V&A conservator in1990. Missing parts of the stretcher were replaced with yew and wax. Part of the bracket was replaced with yew and stained - then fixed with two small nails and animal glue.\n\nArmchairs W.12-1940 and W.17-1965 are of the same pattern. Two armchairs of this pattern were sold from the Keck collection by Sotheby's, NY 30 November-5 December 1991, lot 238. The catalogue notes record that a set of four from the collection of the Earl of Yarborough were illustrated in M. Jourdain and F. Rose, <i>English Furniture, the Georgian Period</i> (London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1953), fig. 43.  A triple-chair-back settee of this pattern was sold by Sotheby's, New York, 26 January, 1991, lot 122.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Windsor armchair with Gothic tracery back and cabriole legs","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Illustrated in Coleridge, Anthony, <u>Chippendale</u> <u>Furniture,</u> 1968, Plate 157."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["W.24-1954"],"accessionNumberNum":"24","accessionNumberPrefix":"W","accessionYear":1954,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-17","recordCreationDate":"2007-12-15","availableToBook":true}}