Armchair
Category
Furniture
Date
1810 - 1820
Materials
Ebonised beech, gilt, cane, cotton damask
Measurements
87.5 x 56.5 x 63 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
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Chartwell, Kent
NT 1101628
Summary
A pair of parcel-gilt and ebonized elbow chairs, English, circa 1810-20, each with overscrolled top rail set with two rectangular and one oval sunken panel with moulded rims, each rectangular panel filled with gilt-painted palmette motifs, the central oval panel painted with a feline mask, possibly a tiger, the lower rail joined to the top by two curule-form rails centred by a roundel painted with a flower, the chanelled armrests terminating in scrolled ends and supported on curved supports with carved paws on circular columns, the caned seat on four square-section tapering curved legs headed by paterae, each seat with associated loose squab covered floral patterned pale yellow damask.
Provenance
Chartwell was purchased by Winston Churchill in 1922 and for the next 40 years it was the family home. Presented to the National Trust in 1946, Winston and Clementine Churchill continued to live there until 1965 when it was relinquished to the management of the National Trust. Much of the contents of Chartwell were accepted by the Treasury in payment of death duty and retained in the house. Lady Churchill also gifted many pieces and others are on loan from the Churchill family.