Lot description
each horseshoe-shaped arm of three sections joined by overlapping pressure-pegged scarf joins, the posts and stiles mortised and tennoned into the arm and extending through the seat frame as legs, two round curved stretchers tongue-and-grooved into both back stiles and tennoned into the underside of the arm forming catapult-shaped supports, the back splat formed by two shaped uprights, mortised and tennoned into the underside of the arm and the back of the seat frame, flanking three mitred horizontal stretchers dividing the back splat into four main registers, the top inset with an openwork panel with a beaded edge, the second with a mat-on-board panel, the third with a further beaded-edged openwork panel, all above a cusped apron with a beaded edge, the arms supported on each side with an elongated round S-shaped brace, the seat frame of mitre, mortise and tenon construction supported with one transverse stretcher underneath, the shorter rails with exposed tenons, hump-back-shaped stretchers with pillar-shaped struts joining the legs below the seat frame, above oval stretchers with flattened undersides joining the side and back legs near the feet and a shaped footrest at the front atop an apron
