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.
AAT
300037834
chairs, Cromwellian
chairs, leather-upholstered (Cromwellian chairs)
chairs, turkey-work (Cromwellian chairs)
leather-upholstered chairs (Cromwellian chairs)
turkey-work chairs (Cromwellian chairs)
13yrs ago
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