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Furniture > Seating furniture > Armchairs > Glastonbury chairs

Preferred term

Glastonbury chairs  

Definition

  • Collector's term for early 17th c. English folding chairs having legs crossed front to back and arms connected to the back and to the front seat rail; supposedly based on a chair used by the last Abbot of Glastonbury at Wells [AAT 94]

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Abbots' chairs
  • CHAIRS, GLASTONBURY
  • FOLDING CHAIRS, GLASTONBURY CHAIRS

Notation

  • 112721

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-XS17SDNL-F

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