Chair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1770
Materials
Fruitwood, beech, softwood, wool, webbing
Measurements
96 x 52.5 cm
Place of origin
England
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127616
Summary
A fruitwood chair, English, late 18th century, with curving toprail above three divergent slender splats, with a drop-in seat, raised on three square-section supports with chamfered inner edge and 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.