Chair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1840
Materials
Ebonised wood and cane
Measurements
840 x 435 x 385 mm
Place of origin
England
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Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 533001.1
Summary
A mid-19th century, English chair. One of a set of three ebonised wood and cane chairs (533001.1-3). The chair features a ball-turned top-rail, rear uprights and front legs, the back is filled with four slender ring-turned spindles and the seat is made of cane. The seat rails feature decorative notches and the legs are joined by two turned side stretchers on each side. (Top front stretcher missing on this chair).
Provenance
Re-located to the Ebony Dressing Room following a reconstruction of this room by the National Trust in 2000. Identified as the 'Ebonised chair, cane seat' listed in an inventory of this room in 1891. The other pair which form this set are in The Ebony Bedroom. This set of three chairs, however, may not be the ones to which the inventory refers as in 1891 there were four in total, three in the Ebony Bedroom and one in the Ebony Dressing Room. This suite of rooms was created in the 1850s for Mary Elizabeth Lucy (1803 - 1890) wife of George Hammond Lucy (1789 - 1845) by the architect John Gibson.