Object number
51/76
Collection
Description
This is a banister slat (the piece fitted in the centre of a chair back) for a Windsor chair and is made of beech. It is for a wheel back chair, so called from the wheel pattern in the centre, but has a solid boss ornamented with circular grooves instead of the spokes of a normal wheel back. Wheel back chairs are the most common type of Windsor chair and date from the end of the eighteenth century. It was probably made by a Chiltern bodger in the beech woods near High Wycombe (See 51/74, 51/75, 51/77)
Physical description
slat [back]; wood (beech); good condition
Archival history
MERL list / description [Massingham Collection, October 1989] – 'ACC. NO.: 51/76 // NAME: CHAIR SLAT // NEG NO.: 35/8 // STORAGE: '
Production place
High Wycombe
Production date
1930-01-01 - 1939-12-31
Production period
1930s
Object name
Material
Associated subject
External document
- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\35 series negatives\Scans\35_8.tif - High resolution image
