Dining chair
possibly Gillows
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1830
Materials
Rosewood, beech rails, wool, webbing
Measurements
84 x 48 x 45 cm
Place of origin
Lancaster or London
Order this imageCollection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127584.2
Summary
A dining chair, from a pair of rosewood and simulated rosewood 'balloon-back' dining chairs, English, circa 1830, possibly by Gillows, the toprail carved with a flower, the splat with a scroll topped by a fan motif, with drop-in seat and raised on a pair of ball- and baluster-turned reeded front legs. Upholstered in a blue-striped woollen needlework with floral sprays.
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.
Makers and roles
possibly Gillows , cabinet maker