Help me date this chair?

Degsy

I have this chair for ages and i was gonna do a bit of restoration on the seat which is badly damaged.
Just wondering if anybody has an idea of what date it could be and maybe what country it came from?

coylemj

Can't help with the answers you're looking for but it looks like a fairly bog standard carver, part of a dining table set. What makes you think it's worth restoring?

Degsy

coylemj wrote: »

Can't help with the answers you're looking for but it looks like a fairly bog standard carver, part of a dining table set. What makes you think it's worth restoring?

I just happen to like it.

Wild_Dogger

Hi Degsy ,
Thats a nicechair you have . Its Arts and Crafts .
Have a good look for a makers mark .... Gillow &co , Morris &co or Liberty & co and glasgow companies made oak chairs like this .

monkeynuz

Hi Degsy,

I agree with Wild Dogger, definitely arts and crafts turn of the century or thereabouts.

Cracking chair, really good looking piece, most definitely worth restoring.

All the best.

Degsy

Excuse my ignorance..what does "arts and crafts" mean in relation to a chair?

Edit

If it helps at all the chair came from Santry Demense,it was found in the woods.

monkeynuz

Hi Degsy,

Arts and crafts in relation to any item of furniture or even jewellery or whatever relates to a time period of about 1860-1910ish when William Morris and some fellow like minded people decided (a bit like what is happening now) that they wanted to return to a more handmade "artisan" feel of furniture and decorative arts, they got fed up with the industrialsation of everything, so you can always tell arts and crafts/ Edwardian pieces by the "look" of them hence the "arts and crafts movement" it was a style of furniture rather than a time period thing, i.e. Victorian tends to relate to big heavy stuff from the victorian period, same a Georgian is much more elegant, whereas Arts and Crafts went along at the same time as Victorian, but wanted to be more handmade.

A good place to start is to google Liberty and Co. pewter or silver or enamel and you will see some designs there that reflect the chair you have, I am not sure of the make of your chair, like Wild Dogger said have a good look underneath at the frame of the chair and see if you can see a makers mark anywhere.

Just to repeat myself before, lovely chair well worth restoring.

Hope this helps, if you need any more help I am sure myself or Wild Dogger would be only too happy to help.

All the best.

M.

Degsy

I was having a look at the damaged upholstery and i discovered this under the cushion!:)

Wild_Dogger

Just looking again , it's likely to be Scottish with the thistle emblem.
You got to track down the exact design now

Degsy

Wild_Dogger wrote: »

Just looking again , it's likely to be Scottish with the thistle emblem.
You got to track down the exact design now

Here's a close up

monkeynuz

Just an interesting point, just looked up Washburn Crosby flour, they were a company from Minnesota, USA. Although that doesn't mean the chair is from there, it could just be that the upholsterer have some sacking lying around, but it is very interesting nonetheless.

I just love what you can learn from a seemingly obvious item!

All the best.

M.

Degsy

I had alook on teh cahir for a makers mark and could find none..however there were four zeros (0000) inscribed into the wood..wonder what that means.