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Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1715 - circa 1730
Materials
Walnut, beech, cotton, gold metal thread fringe
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall (Children's Country House), Derbyshire
NT 652691
Summary
A set of three sofas, part of a larger set of ten pieces of walnut-framed seat furniture, English, circa 1715 - 1730, also comprising seven chairs [NT 652692.1 - .3]. Each sofa having a shaped back with scrolled-over straight top edge above a stuff-over seat flanked to either side by a short scroll-over, or 'rowled', arm. Raised on three moulded cabriole front legs and three block and column-turned sharply raked rear legs. All joined by three side and two central moulded and wavy stretchers. -- Upholstered in modern blue fabric with a gilt metal thread fringe. The sofas once upholstered in claret velvet. In 1905, one sofa visible in a Country Life picture of the south-east end of the Long Gallery where it appears to be upholstered in fabric stitched with a pattern of floral sprays.
Provenance
Acquired by the Treasury from 10th Lord Vernon in lieu of death-duties after the death of Francis Lawrence William Venables-Vernon, 9th Lord Vernon (1889 - 1963) and transferred from the Treasury to the National Trust on the 30th October 1984.
References
Bowett 2009, Early Georgian Furniture 1715 - 1740 (2009), Illustrated and discussed pp. 152 - 3 and Plates 4:13 (chairs) and 4:14 (sofas)