Primitive stick chair / Cadair ffyn gyntefig

A rare primitive hoop-back stick chair of wonderful form, with a very unusual shaped cresting rail. Made from Ash and Elm and retaining much of the original paint.
Circa 1780
Provenance: This chair has been in the same Carmarthenshire family since at least the 1940’s which suggests a possible Welsh origin, although in “The English Windsor Chair” by Thomas Crispin (Alan Sutton publishing 1992) a similar style chair with comparable arm supports has a “West Country” style attribution.
26″ w x 15″ d x 41¼” h
66cm w x 38.1cm d x 104.9cm h
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