Garden chair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1990
Materials
Carved and painted wood
Measurements
110 x 49 x 55 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 1140376.3
Summary
A garden chair, from a set of eight, of painted wood, each of sgabello form, with a shell back above a dished seat and carved front boards. These chairs are made after a seventeenth century design as similar sgabelli shell-back chairs are represented in an oil painting of the gardens at Ham House executed in the 1670s by Henry Danckerts.
Provenance
Made for Ham House under the National Trust care circa 1990.