Open armchair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1760
Materials
Ash, later rexine upholstery stuffed with horsehair, brass castors
Measurements
103 x 77 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127977
Summary
An ash and upholstered open armchair, English, circa 1760, the back, arms and seat upholstered in 19th century Rexine and stuffed with horsehair, the arm supports in-curved, the legs square-section and raised on small brass castors.
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.