Elegant Dorset Chair, Mounted Photograph with Decorator's Notes hand-painted figure and learned that they were

and learned that they were a bit of a thing during the Victorian era--some plain like this one

but perhaps corresponds with the idea of some sort of thread or line

but it opens and closes with ease and provides lots of space for stashing all manner of things

The painting and roughness of the clay surface make it feel even older

Elegant Dorset Chair, Mounted Photograph with Decorator's Notes hand-painted figure and learned that they wereThis just struck me as a lovely thing a handsome chair to begin with, but granted an added elegance and evocativeness via the nature and tonalities of the photograph. With handwritten notes along the bottom, noting the $60 price of the chair and its potential placement in sitting room or bedroom, I assume this was one of a series of furniture options presented to a client by an interior decorator. But, of course, to me it looks like the stage of a