Ladderback chair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1780
Materials
Painted timber and beech
Measurements
112 x 51 x 41 cm
Place of origin
Holland
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Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 1245977.2
Summary
One of a pair of late 18th century painted ladderback rush-seated chairs, Dutch, late 18th century. The back of five graduated and shaped splats, the uppermost with chamfered and ogee-arched top-edge, painted with pastoral and landscape scenes. The rear uprights topped by turned finials. The seat of woven rush and on turned legs joined by multiple turned stretchers and with turned feet. The uprights and stretchers painted with gilt stars and lozenges against a cream ground.
Provenance
The bequest of Margaret (Anderson) McEwan, The Hon. Mrs Ronald - later Dame Margaret - Henry Fulke Greville, DBE (1863-1942) from probate records linked with the donation of the property to the National Trust in 1943. This item found on the record for Polesden Lacey The Corridor, page 11.