High-backed chair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1860
Materials
Turned and carved oak and beech
Measurements
128.5 x 48 x 48.5 cm
Place of origin
Holland
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Sizergh Castle, Cumbria
NT 998161.4
Summary
A chair, one of a set of six high-backed oak and beech chairs, Anglo-Dutch, mid-19th century, in the style of the late 17th/early 18th centuries. Each with elaborately-carved and pierced back of shells and scrolls beneath an arched toprail of 'S'-scrolls and a shell, between block-, vase- and ring-turned uprights topped by finials. The boarded seat carved with a four-pointed leaf and foliate scrolls and with carved edge, and raised on two block-, vase- and ring-turned front legs united by a pierced and carved stretcher of 'C'-scrolls. With outswept rear supports and turned 'H'-shaped and side stretchers.
Provenance
Given by Henry Hornyold Strickland (1890 – 1975) with Sizergh Castle and its estates in 1950.