Doe and Hope

Description

The original painted pine side chair showing many superb worn pigment and layers of paint, having a bar back worn through to white, the two plank seat worn further showing green, white, rust and ochre, the whole on block legs joined by stretchers,, surviving from the second quarter of nineteenth century Ireland.

With a good rich colour and deep patination to the many layers of paint, this well used and cherished chair is stable and there is only a little movement in the joints being structurally sound with an aged split to the seat.

A great deal of Irish country furniture was painted as it protected timber from damp and could be easily renewed to incorporate a new colour scheme in a home. This carpenter’s chair came from a small cottage in the Poyntzpass locality, in County Down and once formed part of a parlour set.

A good example of Irish country furniture in un-meddled with order.