A good and interesting George III ash, sycamore and pine primitive chair, circa 1800


With traces of historic red-paintThe back with bold round-ended chamfered uprights, and two central serrated 'leaf-blade' splats, mortised between two horizontal back rails and the rear seat edge, and topped by a matching round-ended finial, the out-splayed flat-arms peg-jointed through the back uprights, and with slightly in-curved front supports, the generous solid seat with straight front edge and rounded corners, on four splayed hand-shaped legs mortised-and-wedged through the seat, 62.5cm wide x 61.5cm deep x 122.5cm high, (24 1/2in wide x 24in deep x 48in high)
|A comb-back Windsor chair with a related 'serrated'-edge splat is illustrated Thomas Crispin, The English Windsor Chair (1992), p. 61, p. 2:26. The author remarks that the chair is possibly of 'estate' construction due to its rather eclectic style and construction, which is probably the case here. See also Robert Young, Folk Art (1999), p. 152, bottom left, for a comb-back chair with a comparable scalloped splat. The chair is again attributed as English, although Irish, or possibly Scottish, regional attributions could also be suggested for this one-off idiosyncratic chair.