Chair
W. Snowdon
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1870
Materials
Oak, leather, ebonised wood, brass castors
Measurements
89 x 48 x 54 cm
Place of origin
Rochdale
Order this imageCollection
Dunster Castle, Somerset
NT 726355.3
Summary
One of a set of four oak and leather upholstered chairs, English, circa 1870. By W. Snowdon, Rochdale, each with red leather padded back and seat, the back with over-scrolled uprights raised on gadrooned bulbs, the channelled front seat rail centred with an ebonised rosette, standing on octagonal tapering legs headed with a blind-fret tablet and terminating in castors, each stamped to the rear seat rail W SNOWDON ROCHDALE 540.
Provenance
Purchased by the National Trust.
Marks and inscriptions
On rear seat rail: W SNOWDON ROCHDALE 540
Makers and roles
W. Snowdon