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Category
Furniture
Date
1750 - 1775
Materials
Mahogany, beech rails, later Rexine upholstery
Measurements
91.5 x 59.5 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127560
Summary
A mahogany chair, English, third quarter of the 18th century, the rectangular back and seat upholstered in later black Rexine, and with square-section legs united by plain stretchers.
Provenance
By descent until, following the death of Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire (1895 - 1950), Hardwick Hall and its contents were accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death duties and transferred to the National Trust, in 1959.