Chair
possibly J. M. Willcox (c.1802 - 1859)
Category
Furniture
Date
1830
Materials
Oak, cane and needlework
Measurements
1130 x 505 x 495 mm
Place of origin
Warwick
Order this imageCollection
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 532981.5
Summary
A carved oak chair, English, circa 1830, possibly by James Morris Willcox (died in 1859). Believed to have been copied from the late 17th century walnut armchair (NT 532982); The needlework loose seat was possibly worked by Mary Elizabeth Lucy. The chair consists of a caned back panel surrounded by carved acanthus scrolls which are flanked by twist-turned posts topped with carved finials. The top rail is carved with an English rose surmounted by a crown. The twist turned legs are on square block feet. There is a twist turned middle stretcher and a foliate carved fore-rail centred by a fleur-de-lys,. The square seat consists of a needleworked wool seat pad features lines of repeated flowers with stem and leaves with every other row one of four differently shaded scrolls in shades of pink, yellow and blue on a light pattened green background framed by lines of pinks and greens. From a set of eight comprising six chairs and a pair of armchairs (532981.1-8).
Provenance
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.
Makers and roles
possibly J. M. Willcox (c.1802 - 1859), carver