Armchair — Webb, Philip Speakman — c.1883-1900

The armchair has a rectangular back and seat, with curved arms and side rails, upholstered arm pads, and rectangular cushions on the seat and back.. The rectangular back is formed of six square section rails between uprights topped with acorn-like finials. The bottom rail of the back is hinged to the underside of the back seat rail. The sides are formed of curving square section arm rails with an upholstered pad on the top, concave square section arm supports, and straight front legs with bobbin carving and brass capped castors on the feet. The straight front seat rail is also square section with bobbin carving and the square section side rails curve down from the front legs to form the back feet, with castors screwed into the timber. Between the arms and the side rails are four bobbin turned uprights on each side. The arm rails extend beyond the back and are joined by a brass rod with finial through one of five holes in both rails to a brass plate screwed to the outer face of each rail. Bobbin turned stretchers run between the front legs and from the front legs to the back legs. Under the seat cushion black bottoming is tacked to the rebate around the seat and below this is hessian and brown and white webbing.