Armchair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1900
Materials
Painted wood, probably beech, gilt, cane, plush
Measurements
82 x 71 x 55 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206572.2
Summary
A painted armchair, one of a pair, English, circa 1900, in late 18th century style. With a lattice-pierced back beneath a toprail painted with a spray of flowers between garlands. The sloping arms filled with cane and with turned and ring-turned front arm supports. The seat oval and filled with cane, and with a loose plush-covered cushion. The seat rails painted with flowers and foliage and raised on four turned and tapering legs with gilt ring-turnings.
Provenance
Listed in the Inventory taken at Wimpole in 1965 in the Entrance Hall (p. 1). Actual 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.