Lot 153
£2,520
Auction: 12 October 2022 at 11:00 BST
carved oak
Note: This chair is a direct copy of a chair first identified in 1878 by archaeologist Nicolay Nicolaysen (1817-1911) in the Tyldal Church in Østerdalen, Hedmark, Norway made circa 1150–1200. He arranged for it to be sent to the Historical Museum in Oslo, Norway where it remains on public display today.
Detailed photographs of all four sides of the Tyldal chair were published in 1897 in Vol 10 of The Studio magazine in an article titled 'Early Scandinavian Carvings' by J. Romilly Allen, F.S.A. Later, on 7th December 1900, The Building News published a well-observed drawing of the Tyldal chair titled Norwegian Chair from Tyldalen Church Osterdalin.
A small number of reproductions of the famous Tyldal chair seem to exist, including a birch example circa 1900 by the carver Johan Borgersen is in the collection of Sverresborg Trøndelag Folk Museum; three variations of the model in limed oak and made in 1925 are in the collection of Bryn Athyn Cathedral Pennsylvania; and a single chair circa 1927 in the collection of The Glencairn Museum, Pennsylvania.