Open armchair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1850 - circa 1920
Materials
Carved beech, silk, braid
Measurements
82.2 x 59.7 x 40.8 cm
Place of origin
France
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206761
Summary
A beech open armchair, French, last half of the 19th century/early 20th century, in Louis XV style. With a cartouche-shaped back, the arms outswept, partially padded and terminating in scrolls, on curved and moulded arm supports. The seat serpentine and with moulded seat rails. Raised on moulded cabriole supports with scroll feet. Upholstered in later crimson silk edged with braid.
Provenance
Listed in the Inventory taken at Wimpole in 1965 in Mrs Bambridge's Study (p. 9). 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.