Chair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1740 - circa 1750
Materials
Mahogany, horsehair
Measurements
96.5 x 51 x 43 cm
Place of origin
England or Ireland
Order this imageCollection
Springhill, County Londonderry
NT 216075.9
Summary
A mahogany chair, one of a set of eleven, English or Irish, mid-18th century. NT 216075.11 an open armchair. Of 'ladderback'-type, the back with an arched and shaped toprail above three conforming splats. The drop-in seats - probably originally of rushes - now covered in later black horsehair. Raised on four chamfered square-section legs with shaped spandrels and joined by an 'H'-shaped and a rear stretcher. -- A very similar set of chairs - one with a surviving rush seat - made by the English maker Giles Grendey (1693 - 1780) are in the Geffrye Museum, London [Object 9/2010-1 - 6]. Another set with similar backs but cabriole legs is recorded as having been supplied by Elizabeth Hutt & Son of St. Paul's Churchyard to Bowringsleigh, Devon in 1739 (Bowett).
Provenance
Purchased by National Trust in 1957 from William Lowry Lenox-Conyngham (1903–1957), shortly before his death, along with the other contents of Springhill.
References
Bowett 2009, Early Georgian Furniture 1715 - 1740 (2009), p. 186