Dining chair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1800
Materials
Stinkwood, leather, cane
Measurements
86 x 59 x 52 cm
Place of origin
South Africa
Order this imageCollection
Owletts, Kent
NT 1410954.5
Summary
The armchair from a set of five stinkwood dining chairs, South African, circa 1800. Each with rectangular back and vertical bar splats below a pedimented toprail, the leather seat covering original cane work and standing on square tapering legs joined by H-stretchers, the armchair with open arms and wide seat. Photographed in situ at Stonehouse, Parktown, Johannesburg, the family home that Sir Herbert Baker designed and lived in.