Settee
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1700 - 1715
Materials
Walnut, beech, silk, wool, metal thread, horsehair, linen, gimp, ticking
Measurements
134 x 137 x 70 cm
Place of origin
England
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Knole, Kent
NT 129403
Summary
An upholstered walnut and beech settee, English, early 18th century. The front legs and stretchers replaced. Part of a set with a pair of stools [NT 129404.1 - .2] and a footstool [NT 129405]. With double-arched back and outswept, scrolled arms. The three front legs plainly turned; the front legs with small ball feet, the rear legs with square-section kicked feet. All joined by stretchers. With covered seat rails. The top covers of early 18th century 'bizarre' silk, with a yellow damask ground brocaded with pale and salmon pink silk and motifs in silver-gilt threads. With possibly 17th century crimson and gold-coloured looped fringe. With original pink silk woven lace as binding on the cushons. The inside back filled with horsehair with a stuffing cover of blue linen. The outside back with twill weave green wool. Base cloth of bast fibre with spaced webbing.
Provenance
Knole and the majority of its furniture were accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death duties and transferred to the National Trust in 1946.