Wing-back armchair
Category
Dolls' houses and furnishings
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood, Card, Metal pins, Glue
Measurements
152 x 95 x 67 mm
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1339005.1
Summary
One of a pair of model card and wood wing backed chairs painted red, with card back, on wheels extended outside the chair. In notebook no.5, page 47 (1340945.5) Charles Wade refers to: 'Seventh Heaven 134 Three Figures Old man and two old women seated in chairs. One of the Bee Hive leather studded kind - the other two winged with curved backs - one with wheels, both painted red. A pair of these were popular Golden Wedding gift.' Includes sketch with dimensions.
Provenance
CPW item 134 Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 5 Second Floor, 1944, Page 47