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Cromwellian chairs


Identification code: 300037834



Alternative term/s

  • chairs, Cromwellian
  • chairs, leather-upholstered
  • chairs, turkey-work
  • Cromwellian chair
  • leather-upholstered chairs
  • turkey-work chairs

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Scope note:

Collector's term for square low-back chairs, often without arms, having turned legs and stretchers; this type, covered in leather or turkey work, long antedated the period of Cromwell but became widely popular in England in the mid-1600s.

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