Panel-back armchair
Category
Furniture
Date
1660 - 1685
Materials
Carved, turned and joined oak
Measurements
110 x 56 cm
Place of origin
Yorkshire
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1128062
Summary
An oak panel-back armchair, English, probably Yorkshire, late 17th century. The arched cresting with scroll ends and carved with foliage in low relief, the probably modified larger panel with an applied arch above a low relief foliate spray. Applied beading forming a rectangle to the lower quarter of the panel. With ring and baluster-turned arm supports, and peripheral stretchers. -- Much of the 16th and 17th century oak at Hardwick Hall, the indigenous pieces aside, was probably purchased by the 6th Duke in the 19th century to enhance the Elizabethan feel of the property, much as his contemporary, Charles Winn of Nostell Priory, is known to have done (Westgarth, Raikes). The 6th Duke is recorded, for instance, as having bought 'oak Arm chairs' in 1846.
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.
References
Westgarth 2009, M. Westgarth, 'A Biographical Register of Nineteenth Century Antique and Curiosity Dealers', Regional Furniture XXIII (2009), 1 - 205 Raikes, 2003: S.Raikes. ““A cultivated eye for the antique”: Charles Winn and the enrichment of Nostell Priory in the nineteenth century.” Apollo 157.494 (2003): pp.3-8.