High-backed armchair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1695
Materials
Walnut, beech frame, textile
Measurements
123 x 66 x 66 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 453052.2
Summary
One of a set of six walnut and upholstered high back open armchairs, English, circa 1695 rectangular padded back with shaped moulded arms carved with scrolled terminals and held by horsebone supports. The overstuffed seat raised on conforming horsebone front legs tied by a double S scroll stretcher and baluster turned splayed back legs with further baluster turned H stretcher. Upholstered in a 20th century rose velour with tasseled fringe. These chairs are most probably the '6 crimson velvet elbow chairs with red covers' recorded in the Tapestry Bedchamber at Dyrham Park in 1703. See: Bowett, Adam 'English Furniture 1660-1714' ACC 2002 pg.237
Provenance
Probably the '6 crimson velvet elbow chairs with red covers' recorded in the Tapestry Bedchamber at Dyrham Park in 1703. Indigenous collection purchased by the Ministry of Works in 1956 and given to Dyrham Park in 1961
References
Bowett 2002: Adam Bowett, English Furniture 1660-1714, 2002, pg.237