Chair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1770
Materials
Beech, cane, silk, braid, webbing
Measurements
94.8 x 53 x 46.2 cm
Place of origin
Provence
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206750.1
Summary
A chair, one of a set of five beech and cane chairs, Provincial French, late 18th century. 206750.3 the only armchair; .1 and .2 upholstered in striped fabric; .3 upholstered in red fabric; .4. and .5 upholstered in green floral fabric. This standard chair with cane back in a moulded frame and carved toprail. The seat stuff-over and serpentine-front and with floral-carved seat rail. Raised on cabriole legs with carved knees.
Provenance
Listed in the 1965 Inventory taken at Wimpole in Mrs. Bambridge's Bedroom (p. 9). 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.