Rout chair
Giuseppe Gaetano Descalzi (1767 - 1855)
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1800 - 1850
Materials
Cherry, cane
Measurements
86 x 42 cm
Place of origin
Chiavari
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127620.3
Summary
A chair, one of a set of six cherry chiavari, or rout, chairs, Italian, early to mid-19th century, by Giuseppe Gaetano Descalzi (1767-1855) of Chiavari, Genoa. Having a broad curving toprail, horizontal splat with central swelling and woven cane seat, on turned and tapering legs united by turned peripheral 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.
Marks and inscriptions
Rear of splat: FABRICA / DI / GAETANO DESCALZI / DEITO CAPANINO / IV CHIAVARI
Makers and roles
Giuseppe Gaetano Descalzi (1767 - 1855), maker