Wardrobe
Haig & Chippendale (fl. 1779 - 1796)
Category
Furniture
Date
1780
Materials
Mahogany, oak, deal, brass
Measurements
244 x 274 x 61 cm
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire (Accredited Museum)
NT 731748
Summary
A mahogany breakfront wardrobe by Haig and Chippendale (fl.1779-1796) London 1780. Commissioned by Sir Richard Colt Hoare for his dressing room in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. The moulded cornice above four fielded panel doors in the upper part, the two central doors enclosing sliders, flanked by hanging cupboard and shelves, the lower part with eight short drawers and further slides, raised on a plinth base.
Full description
A payment from Richard Colt Hoare to Thomas Haig & Co. is recorded in June / July 1780: 'A very large mahogany wardrobe fine wood with folding doors in the middle of the upper and under parts and eleven sliding shelves with baize aprons Drawers at each end of the bottom part & Cupboards with folding doors in the Ends of the upper part one with pegs for swords, the other with 3 sliding shelves, fine spring and Tumbler locks neat wrought brass handles £39- -' It is unclear when exactly the wardrobe was moved to Stourhead but it seems quite likely that its first stop after leaving London was at Wavendon. Perhaps transferred to Colt Hoare's half brother Henry Hoare where it appears in the inventory of c.1841 in his dressing room. It is also described in the Wavendon inventory of 1852 but is not identifiable in 1895. The wardrobe first appears in the Stourhead records in 1908 where it has been demoted to the nursery. For further discussion and extensive published research see: Goodison, Judith ‘The life and work of Thomas Chippendale Junior’ PWP 2017 Goodison, Judith ‘Thomas Chippendale the Younger at Stourhead’ Furniture History Society 2005 (Vol. 41) pp. 57-116 Gilbert, Christopher ‘The life and work of Thomas Chippendale’ London 1978 Vol.1 pp.235, 267 Beard, Geoffrey & Gilbert, Christopher ‘The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840’ Furniture History Society 1986 pg.169 Dudley Dodd & Lucy Wood, 'The Weeping Women commode and other Orphaned Furniture by the Chippendales at Stourhead', in Furniture History XLVII (2011) James Weedon (March 2018)
Provenance
Commissioned by Sir Richard Colt Hoare for his dressing room at Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. Transferred to Wavendon circa 1840 for Colt Hoare's half brother Henry Hoare. Transferred to Stourhead circa 1908 where it was put in the Nursery. Given to the National Trust along with Stourhead House, its grounds, and the rest of the contents by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947) in 1946. Stourhead; given to the National Trust along with the house, its grounds, and the rest of the contents by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt. (1865 – 1947) in 1946
Makers and roles
Haig & Chippendale (fl. 1779 - 1796), cabinet maker and furniture designer
References
Goodison, 2005: Judith Goodison. “Thomas Chippendale the younger at Stourhead.” Furniture History 31 (2005): pp.57-116, pp. 57-116 Gilbert, 1978: Christopher Gilbert. The life and work of Thomas Chippendale. London: Studio Vista: Christie’s, 1978., pp. 235, 267 Beard and Gilbert, 1986: Geoffrey Beard and Christopher Gilbert (ed), Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, 1986, pg.169 Goodison, 2017: Judith Goodison, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale Junior, PWP London & New York 2017 Dodd & Wood 2011, Dudley Dodd & Lucy Wood, 'The Weeping Women commode and other Orphaned Furniture by the Chippendales at Stourhead', in Furniture History XLVII (2011)