Gallery seat
Category
Furniture
Date
1825 - 1870
Materials
Oak, textile and wool
Measurements
79 x 262 x 49 cm
Place of origin
England
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485426.3
Summary
A gallery bench or "banquette", from a set of six, English, nineteenth century, the seat has one diagonal side and stands on six turned oak circular legs, the rectangular back and the seat covered in red burgundy. These seats were possibly commissioned by the 3rd Earl to coincide with the extension of the North Gallery which began in 1824 or acquired later in the century.
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.