Congress of Vienna Chair
Category
Furniture
Date
1800 - 1814
Materials
Beech, gesso, gold leaf, linen, wool, silk, metal thread
Measurements
92 cm (H); 51.5 cm (W); 56 cm (D)
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Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 1220560.18.1
Summary
Grooved giltwood frame with slightly outward curving backs, on taper supports. One of a set of twenty-two Empire chairs, this one reputedly used by Comte de Stackleberg, Russian Ambassador to Vienna, at the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815), the upholstered seats and back panels in heraldic petit point on an old gold ground. Needlework covers by nuns in Nantes, executed during the first years of the 1930s, represent on the backs the arms of the plenipotentiaries present at the Congress and, on the seats, the arms of their respective countries.
Marks and inscriptions
(the Comtes coat of arms on back and Russian coat of arms on seat)
