A George II joined oak 'lambing-type' wing armchair, Yorkshire or Lancashire, circa 1740
Having a slender arched panelled and raked back, scroll-ended back uprights and canted boarded side wings, outsplayed scroll-shaped flattened open arms, and a dished seat with interlaced rope to support a cushion, above panelled sides, one panel lacking, on straight front legs, 73cm wide x 63cm deep x 116cm high, (28 1/2in wide x 24 1/2in deep x 45 1/2in high)
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Provenance:Purchased in Skipton, Yorkshire, 5 March 1963, by Roger WarnerSold Christie's, 'The Roger Warner Collection', South Kensington, London, 20 - 21 January 2009, Lot 148Literature:Illustrated in Bernard B. Cotton, The English Regional Chair (1990), p. 435, fig. NW432 Exhibited:'Common Furniture', A Loan Exhibition, Temple Newsam, Leeds, 19th August - 18th September 1982 [item 17]Dr Bernard Cotton attributes this 'box'-form winged armchair particularly to the Yorkshire and Lancashire Dales region, see ibid, p. 434, surmising that they were probably intended for use by the male head of the household, as a comfortable fireside chair. These chairs are found in a wide variety of designs, suggesting they were made by cabinet-makers or carpenters to individual order, rather than produced by joiners or turners who made several chairs of the same design. They have often been referred to as 'lambing' chairs, suggesting they were used by shepherds whilst attending their flock through the night. Although there is no firm evidence for their use as such, they do originate in a region with a predominance of sheep farming countryside. See also David Knell, English Country Furniture 1500 - 1900 (2000), p. 286, pl. 430, for a wing armchair with a rope webbed seat.