Form (bench)
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1600
Materials
Oak
Measurements
55 x 190.5 x 25.5 cm
Place of origin
England
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Bateman's, East Sussex
NT 760832
Summary
A joined oak form, or long stool, English, probably West Country, late 16th/early 17th century. The top with worn, moulded edge, and above run-moulded friezes (one end frieze with replacements and reinforcement), raised on block and fluted baluster-turned legs with a lower rising baluster. The feet reduced in height but joined by a moulded 'H'-shaped stretcher.
Full description
Described by Tobias Jellinek as 'a truly remarkable Elizabethan fluted-leg oak long form, the only one known to me'.
Provenance
Listed in the Large Hall in the inventory taken at Bateman's in 1939. Bequeathed by Caroline Starr Balestier, Mrs Rudyard Kipling (1862-1939) with Bateman’s and its contents.
References
Tobias Jellinek, Early British Chairs and Seats 1500-1700 (2009), p. 201