Chair
K. England & Son
Category
Furniture
Date
1800 - 1899
Materials
Beech
Measurements
94 x 42 cm
Place of origin
Royal Leamington Spa
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1128220
Summary
A beech chair by K. England & Son of Leamington Spa, 19th century, with traces of paint and/or gilt. With undulating toprail above a pierced splat, the corded seat raised on slender turned front legs united by turned 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
Under seat: 'K. England & Son, House Furnishers, Leamington'
Makers and roles
K. England & Son, furnishers