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A Victorian walnut settee and matching pair of spoon back easy chairs circa 1865 A Victorian walnut settee and matching pair of spoon back easy chairs circa 1865 the show frame of each carved with honeysuckle and leaf scrolls with serpentine seat on French scrolled legs upholstered in buttoned pink velvet.
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A fine William and Mary oak settle late 17th century the carved cresting rail with the initials 'H.G' and with seven fielded panels to the back now with a loose red seat cushion h.127cm. w.157cm. d.47cm. Provenance Purchased by the vendor from Elaine Phillips Antiques Ltd. Harrogate in the late 1970's. W
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A rare ash ladderback 'Whalers' armchair North American probably New England late 18th century with turned supports and a rush seat each arm terminating in a stylised Sperm Whale heads losses and re-tipping h.131cm. w.56cm. For another American ladderback armchair without these whale motifs see Victor Chinnery Oak Furniture The British Tradition Woodbridge 1979 p. 522 fig. 4.253. Wallace Nutting Furniture of the Pilgrim Century Dover 1965 Vol. 1 p. 271 pl. 485 illustrates a similar chair which he writes originates from Connecticut. Broke Jobe and Myrna Kaye New England Furniture: The Colonial Era Boston 1984 p. 312 item. 79 illustrate and discuss another 'slat-back' armchair which originates from Eastern Massachusetts with similar scrolled arms and flattened bobbin mouldings to its stretcher rails. The eastern sea board of New England has a strong whaling tradition with centres such as Nantucket famously associated with this industry. The naively carved representations of a Sperm Whale to each arm of this chair are very unusual but relate closely to a folk art tradition associated with whaling and usually evidenced in scrimshaw work. W
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