Armchair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1780 - circa 1800
Materials
Carved and gilded softwood, velvet upholstery
Measurements
95 x 61 x 52 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485381.6
Summary
A giltwood armchair, from a set of six, English, in the French Louis XVI style, circa 1780, with an oval back issuing padded arm-rests on out-swept supports, above a shaped seat, on tapering fluted legs, upholstered with a trellis figured velvet.
Provenance
By descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.