Armchair
Category
Furniture
Date
1700
Materials
Rosewood, leather and brass
Measurements
155 x 68 x 50 cm
Place of origin
Portugal
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Upton House, Warwickshire
NT 446484.2
Summary
One of a pair of large rosewood high-back open armchairs, Portuguese, circa 1700, each with arched back and seat covered in brass studded embossed leather, the arms on ring-turned baluster supports, on block and baluster legs joined by a pierced interlaced scroll-carved front stretcher.
Full description
An armchair of very similar design, but in walnut, can be found in the Museum-School of Portuguese Decorative Arts in Lisbon, Inventory 56, catalogued as Portuguese, 17th century.