Ladderback chair
Category
Furniture
Date
1800 - 1900
Materials
beechwood, ash, rush
Measurements
80 x 40.5 x 46.5 cm
Place of origin
Britain or Ireland
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Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 1219711.30
Summary
A beech and ash ladderback chair, one of a set of thirty-nine from a group of sixty-seven chairs comprising four different styles of chair, British or Irish, 19th century. The shaped level top rail with two small applied beech dome-shaped caps, supported on two curved square-section uprights, the uprights joined by two shaped horizontal back splats, the rush seat on rounded tapering front legs joined to the gently splayed square-section rear legs by a H-stretcher with two central spindle stretchers, each side with a second higher-placed spindle stretcher, the rear legs also joined by a single low-placed spindle stretcher. The 1895 Mount Stewart inventory lists '131 Rush Seat Chairs' located in the Chapel. These chairs are probably part of that group.
Provenance
On loan to the National Trust from Lady Mairi Bury (1921-2009), 1980, then accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the National Trust, 2013