Chair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1840
Materials
Ebonised wood and cane
Measurements
840 x 436 x 398 mm
Place of origin
England
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Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 533001.3
Summary
A chair, one of a set of three ebonized and cane chairs, English, mid-19th century. With ball-turned toprail, rear uprights and front legs, the back filled with three slender ring-turned spindles, the seat of cane. The seat rails with decorative notches. The legs joined by turned multiple side stretchers. -- 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.
Provenance
Date of acquisition not recorded; possibly acquired when the Ebony Bedroom and Ebony Dressing Room were created in the 1850s. Thence by descent and 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.