Highchair
Category
Furniture
Date
1675 - 1725
Materials
Fruitwood
Measurements
1030 x 365 x 390 mm
Place of origin
England
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Cotehele, Cornwall
NT 347747
Summary
Child's fruitwood? high chair. On four legs with foot rest. Cushion on square seat and high three splatted back with three knops. According to Victor Chinnery (2004): A fruitwood child’s high chair, the plain top rail with three turned finials raised on five column-turned posts, the scrolled arms raised on conforming supports over a single-plank moulded seat; the moulded seat-rails on column-turned legs, the front legs drilled to receive the oak footboard with wrought iron spikes, the legs united with plain stretchers and extended to form turned feet. English, c.1675-1725
Provenance
According to Victor Chinnery (2004): Date of acquisition unknown. Similar chairs are illustrated by Victor Chinnery in Oak Furniture – The British Tradition, Woodbridge 1979, pp. 402-5, Figs. 3:486-97.