Set of Lyrebird Pressed Back Pine Chairs
A set of five 'Lyrebird' pressed back pine chairs, early 20th century, Melbourne Chair Company design pattern 254, the cottage chairs with spindle backs, shaped flat seats and flared turned legs with ringed and rod box stretchers, each with the impressed design of a lyrebird with Sturt Desert pea and ferns to the back rail and with impressed design number. Height 37.40 in. Width 15.35 in. Depth 17.72 in.
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- Rail - A term used by cabinet makers for the horizontal sections of the frame of an item such as a chair or settee which have a front rail, a back rail and two side rails, and also on a door or carcase, where the rails are joined to the vertical framings.
- Turned Legs - are legs which have been turned on a lathe. In use from the 16th century, turned legs on tables, chairs and cabinets became more frequent until, by the 1830s, the Georgian square or tapered leg was rarely found except in country pieces.
- Turning - Any part of a piece of furniture that has been turned and shaped with chisels on a lathe. Turned sections include legs, columns, feet, finials, pedestals, stretchers, spindles etc. There have been many varieties and fashions over the centuries: baluster, melon, barley-sugar, bobbin, cotton-reel, rope-twist, and so on. Split turning implies a turned section that has been cut in half lengthwise and applied to a cabinet front as a false decorative support.
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