Untitled
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1920 - circa 1950
Materials
Ebonised beech, parcel-gilding, paint, cane
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206670
Summary
A set of six ebonized and parcel-gilt cane-seated chairs, English, mid-20th century, in Regency style. The two open armchairs 206670.1 and 206670.2.
Provenance
Listed in the 1965 Inventory of Wimpole in the Small Library (p. 46) and two of the set illustrated there in Country Life in December 1967. 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.
References
Hussey, 1967: Christopher Hussey. “Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire.” Country Life 14 Dec. 1967: pp.1594-7., 1594, Figure 2