Chair
John Nethercott & Co.
Category
Furniture
Date
Unknown
Materials
oak and paint
Measurements
975 x 560 x 480 mm
Place of origin
Presteigne
Order this imageCollection
Tudor Merchants House, Pembrokeshire
NT 445682
Summary
Driestoel Chair. An oak driestoel chair or a three-legged stool chair. With triangular boarded seat and turned back support with cross-piece. Painted in size paints, red overall with yellow turnings to legs and spindles. Though essentially a Flemish design (and famliar from the paintings of the Breughals and their contemporaries, upon which this piece is based) turned-member seat furniture like this also appears in contemporary British illustrations.
Provenance
This piece was made by John Nethercott and Co, Discoed, Powys in 2010. The furniture and fittings were commissioned especially for the Tudor Merchant’s House by Dr Charles Kightly.
Makers and roles
John Nethercott & Co., furniture maker Gaynor Birch, painter