An Australian cedar child's high chair with original stand/table Circa 1845
An Australian cedar child's high chair with original stand/table
Circa 1845
the chair with curved top rail and cross-rail above over-scrolled arms, horse hair seat, raised on turned front legs and sabre back legs, joined by a cross-stretcher with central screw attachment, the stand/table with a square top, raised on ring turned legs to the front and sabre legs to the back, joined by a plain cross-stretcher, 40cm wide, 40cm deep, 88cm high (15.5" wide, 15.5" deep, 34.5" high). The chair, 53cm high.
Sold for AU$ 1,037 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • Provenance:
    Purchased from The Mall Antiques Gallery, Leura, 15/12/1982.

    Reference:
    For a similar slightly later example see; Nineteenth Century Australian Furniture, Kevin Fahy, Christina Simpson, Andrew Simpson, David Ell Press, Sydney 1985, page 449, plate 370.

Category: Furniture / Australian Colonial Furniture and Australiana


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