Open armchair
Mary Ann Disraeli, 1st Viscountess Beaconsfield (1792 - 1872)
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1780
Materials
Giltwood, paint, embroidery, velvet, brass castors, walnut seat rails
Measurements
91.5 x 63 x 60 cm
Place of origin
France
Order this imageCollection
Hughenden, Buckinghamshire
NT 428622
Summary
A giltwood and cream-painted open armchair, French, circa 1780. The embroidery worked by Viscountess Beaconsfield or possibly Princess Beatrice. The back and seat both embroidered with a chain of flower garlands, the back centred with a large 'B' below a coronet, the seat framed in red velvet, the oval moulded back with rose bud and leaf cresting, the padded arms with scroll terminals and raised on inswept curvilinear supports, the seat with painted front rail centred with a rose bud and leafy sprig, standing on fluted tapering legs headed with rosettes and terminating in brass castors, the seat rail inscribed 'No 1'. A near pair to NT 428621 but with differences to the carved detail, as well as being upholstered quite differently.
Provenance
Visible in the 1881 photograph of The Library, when it was Disraeli's Drawing Room.
Marks and inscriptions
On seat rail: No.1
Makers and roles
Mary Ann Disraeli, 1st Viscountess Beaconsfield (1792 - 1872), upholsterer Princess Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg (1857 – 1944), upholsterer