Lot description
each elegantly proportioned with slender members, the top rail carved with a headrest in the centre and hidden mortised and tennoned into the stiles on both ends, the stiles extending through the seat frame and continuing as back legs, a plain S-shaped back splat tongue-and-grooved into the top rail and tennoned into the seat frame, the S-shaped arms hidden mortised and tennoned into posts extending through the seat frame and continuing as the front legs, each side with an S-shaped circular-sectioned support fitted in round sockets in the seat frame and the underside of the arms, the seat of standard mitre, mortise and tenon construction with exposed tenons, moulding inward and ending in a beaded edge with two transverse braces mortised and tennoned to the seat frame underneath, a wide flat-banded-edged spandrelled apron butt-joined to the underside of the seat and continuing tongue-and-grooved into the legs and tennoned into the curved foot rail, the aprons on the sides similarly shaped without bands and the one at the back left plain and high, the slightly splayed legs joined by square-sectioned stretchers rounded on the outside, the footrest and side stretchers supported on plain, humpback-shaped aprons
