Lot 85: A SET OF SIX OAK DINING CHAIRS

ALFRED WATERHOUSE
manufactured by James Capel for Blackamoor House, the ring-turned and carved frames supporting upholstered seat and high back raised on squat uprights
38in. (97cm.) high (6)

Cf: Jeremy Cooper, Victorian and Edwardian Furniture and Interiors, Hong Kong, 1987, pp.106-7 (chair from Manchester Town Hall illustrated) See also, Jill Lever (ed.), Architects' Design for Furniture, London, 1982, pp.83-4

A variant of this design was also used at Blackamoor House, home to Sir Roundell Palmer, Attorney General of the time and the first Earl of Selborne.

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