Collinge Antiques

Description

Matched pair of mid 19th.c. Windsor armchairs c.1840. Yew wood top rails, hoops and back splats over carved elm seats. Turned arm supports and legs joined with a crinoline stretchers. With a clear stamp to the side of one seat for the workshop of George Nicholson of Rockley in Wiltshire. Excellent condition, cleaned and waxed in our workshops with great colour and patina.

A Methodist Minister, Nicholson took over the workshop of William Wheatland (also a minister and the founder of the Rockley tradition of chair making) in the hamlet of Rockley in 1830, and produced furniture there until approximately 1841.

Dimensions: width 22½”, depth 22″, height 35″.
Please contact us for more images, delivery and shipping quotes. Alternatively you are welcome to view and collect at our large warehouse showroom in Llandudno Junction, North Wales (approximately 45mins from Chester). We have a large and ever changing selection of genuine good quality antique furniture of all types and have twice been shortlisted for the Home and Antiques Magazine Antique Shop of the Year Award. 01492 580022.