Confidante
Category
Furniture
Date
1850 - 1860
Materials
Rosewood (Bombay Blackwood) and silk plush
Measurements
950 mm (Height) x 720 mm (Depth); 1850 mm (Length)
Place of origin
Bombay
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Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 533027
Summary
A carved rosewood confidante (tete-tete), made in Bombay, circa 1850-60, The cove-shaped backs are carved with vines of leaves and berries, defined at the top with a band of scrolling foliage. Each arm support is also carved with a vine of leaves and berries these are surmounted by lion heads. The base of the conversation has a similarly carved border. The legs are carved with leaves, these scroll outwards and sit on metal casters. Seat is covered in a crimson velvet.
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.
References
Jaffer 2001 : Amin Jaffer, Furniture from British India and Ceylon, a catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum, London, V&A publications, 2001.