Chair
William Sutcliffe
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1700 - circa 1850
Materials
Walnut and velvet
Measurements
1120 x 520 mm
Place of origin
Burnley
Order this imageCollection
Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire
NT 421932.4
Summary
One of a set of twelve Dutch walnut chairs inlaid with marquetry, early 18th-century with Victorian restorations; the back with vase splat and S-scrolled uprights inlaid with flowers and birds in different woods, with carved floral crest; the shaped seat-rail inlaid to match; the cabriole front legs carved and inlaid, on claw and ball feet; the back legs turned, on pad feet; the stretchers curvilinear; the drop-in seat upholstered in crimson stamped velvet. Of the Queen Anne style. Supplied to Gawthorpe Hall in 1851 by William Sutcliffe, a Burnley cabinet-maker and upholsterer who also supplied the matching pair of pedestal tables, 421937.
Makers and roles
William Sutcliffe, cabinetmaker William Sutcliffe, upholsterer