Open armchair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1900
Materials
Ebonised wood, parcel gilding, cane, velvet, metal
Measurements
83.5 x 58.5 x 63.5 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206570.1
Summary
One of three gilt-highlighted and ebonized open armchairs, English, late 19th/early 20th century, in Regency style. Having a rectangular cane back in a line-decorated parcel-gilt frame. The toprail with a central raised tablet. The arms downswept and raised on baluster and ring-turned arm supports. The canework seat with later pink velvet-covered cushion. Raised on ring-turned and tapering front legs and outswept rectangular-section rear legs.
Provenance
Listed in the 1939 Inventory of Wimpole and then in the 1965 Inventory as in the Entrance Hall (p. 1). Date of acquisition not recorded, but probably acquired by George Bambridge (1892 - 1943) and Elsie Bambridge (1896 - 1976), who purchased a largely empty Wimpole in 1938. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1976 by Elsie Bambridge.