Panel-back armchair
Category
Furniture
Date
1800 - 1899 (with some earlier elements)
Materials
Oak
Measurements
110 x 66 cm
Place of origin
England
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Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 532961
Summary
An oak panel-back armchair, English, 19th century, made using some earlier elements. Reputed by the family to be the chair in which Sir Thomas Lucy (1532 - 1600) sat when interrogating William Shakespeare, but the age of the chair's elements and its construction suggest that this story is apocryphal. The back a framed panel within an outer frame. The arms downswept and flanking a boarded seat. The front seat rail arched. On plain rectangular-section legs.
Provenance
Date of acquisition not recorded. Presented to the National Trust by Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy (1896 – 1965), two years after the death of his father, Sir Henry Ramsay-Fairfax, 3rd Bt (1870 – 1944), with Charlecote Park and its chief contents, in 1946.