Open armchair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1770
Materials
Beech, cane, silk, braid, webbing
Measurements
99.2 x 61 x 55.2 cm
Place of origin
Provence
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206750.3
Summary
An open armchair, 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 open armchair with cane back panel in a moulded frame and beneath a carved toprail. The opened arms padded and on in-curved arm supports either side of a stuff-over seat with serpentine and carved front seat rail. Raised on carved cabriole legs.
Provenance
Possibly the chair listed in the 1965 Inventory taken at Wimpole in Bedroom No. 2 (p. 11). 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.