Chair-table
Category
Furniture
Date
1627
Materials
Oak
Measurements
800 x 725 mm; 1115 mm (Length)
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Cotehele, Cornwall
NT 347691
Summary
Oak table chair, the hinged back carved with a formal arcade framework centering on an arabesque and the date 1627; the plain arms on baluster turned supports, the frieze of the seat carved at front and sides and raised on turned legs united by plain stretchers terminating front and rear in vestigal feet. According to Victor Chinnery (2004): An oak chair-table, the five-plank cleated rectangular folding top with shaped side brackets and carved with a deep foliated arch bearing S-scroll and stiff leaf motifs centred by a complex strapwork foliate motif in sunk work, surmounted by the date 1627 carved in relief; the base having two straight arms with scrolled ends pierced to receive the pivot pins for the top, supported on column-turnings above a three-plank seat with applied moulded and carved edges over three seat-rails carved with S-scrolls with applied carved base mouldings, raised on four baluster-turned legs joined by moulded stretchers, two of which are formed as sledge feet with projecting toes. English, dated 1627.
Provenance
According to Victor Chinnery (2004): Date of acquisition unknown, but coincidentally, as the northwest tower was probably adapted by Sir Thomas Coteele in the 1620s, it is possible that the chair-table formed part of the new furnishings of the tower apartments. Illustrated in The Dictionary of English Furniture, Country Life 1954, Vol. I, p. 322, Fig. 2 & 4. Cf. a similar chair-table at the Red Lodge (Bristol Museums & Art Gallery), bearing the arms of Speke.
Marks and inscriptions
1627