Chair
Category
Furniture
Date
1640 - 1660
Materials
Ebony, Leather
Measurements
715 x 490 mm
Place of origin
Coromandel Coast
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Cotehele, Cornwall
NT 347749
Summary
Set of 3 ebony chairs en-suite with COT.F.72 but of lower rise and with shaped seats. Amin Jaffer wrote about this type of chair in in 'Furniture from British India and Ceylon: A Catalogue of the Collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum' (Massachusetts: Peabody Essex Museum, 2001), dating this type 1640-60. They originate from the Coromandel Coast of India. Chairs of a similar type became popular in the mid-18th century because Horace Walpole believed (and publicised) that they were English (Elizabethan) thus starting a collecting fad amongst many of his contemporaries.