The Stourhead Picture Gallery Pole Screens
Thomas Chippendale II (1749 - 1822)
Category
Furniture
Date
1802
Materials
Satinwood, rosewood, chintz
Measurements
160 x 30 x 30 cm
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 731583
Summary
A pair of satinwood banded and line inlaid rosewood pole screens, by Thomas Chippendale II (1749-1822) London 1802. Commissioned for the Picture Gallery at Stourhead by Sir Richard Colt Hoare. With a rectangular framed panel, now with a floral patterned fabric inset, held on a turned column with satinwood finial and raised on a square section vase shaped column and three step square plinth, turned ball feet.
Full description
Chippendale's account dated October 1802 ' 2 Black rosewood pole Screens with square bottoms and banded with Sattin wood, carved vases and cover'd with sattin £11-11-' Another similar pair were commissioned in the same year for the Picture Room (NT 731569) These were made from satinwood with ebony banding. Thomas Chippendale the Younger at Stourhead Sir Richard Colt Hoare employed Thomas Chippendale the Younger (1749-1822) from 1795 to 1820 to supply furniture and furnishings for Stourhead in Wiltshire. The accounts submitted for his work are the largest known archive relating to Chippendale’s work. Out of the 163 pieces of furniture described in the accounts, 103 are still in the house, mostly in the rooms for which they were made. There was a fire in 1902 which destroyed the central part of Stourhead but fortunately most of the pictures and furniture from the ground floor were saved, the majority of the contents of the upper floors were destroyed. Chippendale the Younger worked with his father Thomas Chippendale (1718-1779) for many years before the latter died. Much of the work he produced in the 1780s and 1790s continued the styles and techniques associated with the Chippendale firm. During these years he was completing or continuing commissions that the firm had been involved with including Harewood house, Nostell Priory, and Burton Constable amongst others. The furniture supplied for Stourhead shows the continued high quality and attention to detail that was expected from the Chippendale workshops, linked with simplicity of decoration and clarity of line. For further discussion and extensive published research see: Goodison, Judith ‘The life and work of Thomas Chippendale Junior’ PWP 2017 Goodison, Judith ‘Thomas Chippendale the Younger at Stourhead’ Furniture History Society 2005 (Vol. 41) pp. 57-116 Gilbert, Christopher ‘The life and work of Thomas Chippendale’ London 1978 Vol.1 pp.235, 267 Beard, Geoffrey & Gilbert, Christopher ‘The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840’ Furniture History Society 1986 pg.169 James Weedon (March 2018)
Provenance
Commissioned for the Picture Gallery by Sir Richard Colt Hoare in 1802 from Thomas Chippendale the Younger
Marks and inscriptions
Items marked 'A' and 'B' on adhesive labels
Makers and roles
Thomas Chippendale II (1749 - 1822), cabinet maker