Chair
style of Thomas Sheraton (Stockton-on-Tees 1751 – 1806)
Category
Furniture
Date
1790
Materials
paint, satinwood, cane and brocatelle
Measurements
830 x 470 x 530 mm
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Fenton House, London
NT 1448774
Summary
A polychrome-decorated satinwood chair, English, circa 1790, the shaped top rail painted with flower garlands, the rectangular cane panel back above an oval featuring a nude female figure painted in grisaille and flanked by two cornucopias of flowers, the seat back uprights, tops of the sides rails and fronts of the sabre legs painted green and with husks, the front seat rail also painted with flowers, the caned seat fitted with a loose buttoned squab cushion re-upholstered in green brocatelle. A paper label the underside reading 'G. STONER Collection No. 1016'.
Provenance
This chair is illustrated in A. E. Reviers-Hopkins, 'Little Books About Old Furniture Vol. IV, The Sheraton Period - Post-Chippendale Designers, 1760-1820', fig. 78. This chair is also mentioned on p.114 - 'though possibly well within the late Sheridan period, is, in the rounded knees and legs of curved outline, suggestive of 'English Empire' or perhaps 'Trafalgar' style.' In the collection of Mr. George Stoner, West Wickham, Kent, (a label to the chair reading 'G.STONER Collection No 1016), Bequeathed by Lady Katherine Binning (1871-1952) with Fenton House in 1952.
Makers and roles
style of Thomas Sheraton (Stockton-on-Tees 1751 – 1806), cabinetmaker style of Thomas Sheraton (Stockton-on-Tees 1751 – 1806), furniture designer
References
Little book about old furniture., A. E. Reviers, 'Little Books About Old Furniture Vol. IV, The Sheraton Period - Post-Chippendale Designers, 1760-1820', fig. 78.