Chair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1900
Materials
Walnut veneer, walnut, beech, silk velvet, webbing
Measurements
99 x 46.5 x 50 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire
NT 494509.1
Summary
One of two similar walnut-veneered chairs, English, late 19th/early 20th century, in George II style. This chair with an undulating toprail and with shaped uprights flanking a solid baluster-shaped splat. The brown silk velvet-covered seat pad in seat rails forming rounded front corners and raised on a pair of cabriole legs headed by acanthus and scroll-carved knees and with hairy paw-carved feet. The rear outswept legs square-section.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust in 1990.
Marks and inscriptions
Inside front seat rail: I Inside rear left leg: Pattern Number '7842'