Ladderback chair
Neville Neal (1925 - 2000)
Category
Furniture
Date
30 Jan 1965 (ordered)
Materials
Oak and rush
Measurements
89 x 40.5 x 39.5 cm
Place of origin
Stockton, Warwickshire
Collection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 608293.1.13
Summary
An oak rush-seated 'Clissett' chair, English, made by Neville Neal (1925 - 2000), 1965, after designs by Ernest Gimson (1864 - 1919), one of a set of twenty-one chairs all stamped by the maker [NT 608293.1 - .21]. Having three shaped splats between turned uprights. The rush seat raised on four plainly turned legs joined by pairs of turned stretchers. -- Neville Neal (1925 - 2000) was, from 1939, a pupil of Edward Gardiner (d. 1958) who had worked with Ernest Gimson at his workshops in Daneway, Gloucestershire. On Gardiner's death in 1958, Neal established a workshop in Stockton, Warwickshire. His son, Lawrence, continues chairmaking from the same workshop.
Provenance
Chairs (originally twenty-three of this design with three splats) ordered on 30 January 1965 by Sir George Trevelyan, Principal of the Shropshire Adult Education College at Attingham Park, for use in the Students' Dining Room. They cost £161 14s. A gift to the National Trust from the Shropshire Adult Education College when it left Attingham in the 1970s.
Marks and inscriptions
Rear proper left leg: NEVILLE NEAL
Makers and roles
Neville Neal (1925 - 2000), chairmaker after Ernest Gimson (1864 - 1919), designer