Open armchair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1920 - circa 1950
Materials
Ebonised beech, parcel-gilding, paint, cane
Measurements
82.5 x 46.5 x 53 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206670.2
Summary
An open armchair, one of 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. The toprail with a gilt fretwork pattern above a shaped splat pierced as a pair of addorsed lyres either side of a central roundel carved with a Grecian mask. The open arms downswept and painted with a gilt line; the arm support a gilt ovoid ball. The cane seat raised on four sabre supports decorated with gilt lines.
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