the stained spindle backed chair of small proportions with shaped seat and H-shaped stretcher survives from the late Victorian period
Having said this neither chair needs re-springing and thus can be used from the get go
having an upright rectangular back and padded seat upholstered in gros point upholstery showing a heron amongst foliage and wooded landscape with a chateau in the background
having an ochre coloured slip surviving from the first half of the twentieth century and being of English or French origin
There are two sections of loss to the reverse of the chair where the middle section strut joins the two flanks
An 18thC English Provincial School Oil on Panel of Windsor Castle; Horton Lodge, Windsor, Berkshire c.1770 sub-Macabre- Medicine the stained spindle backed chairOrigin: EnglishPeriod: George IIIProvenance: Horton Lodge, Windsor, BerkshireDate: c. 1770Height: 31Width: 39. 25Depth: 2 (in frame)The beautifully time worn oil on panel, of four conjoined boards, painted provincially, showing Windsor Castle with soldiers and ladies promenading in the foreground with a hound and cannon, and a Union Jack flag raised to the Round Tower, the lodgings of the military knights, the whole surviving in its original gilded