Panel-back armchair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1650
Materials
Oak
Measurements
89 x 60 x 55 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Bateman's, East Sussex
NT 760840
Summary
An oak panel-back open armchair, English, mid-17th century. The back panel carved with addorsed dolphin-type 'C' scrolls between dog-tooth carved upper and lower borders. Both top and bottom rails carved with leaf-filled lunettes. All between rear, rectangular-section uprights carved with pairs of leaves. The arms downswept and either side of a seat formed from a single board above lunette-carved seat rails. Raised to the front on block- and parallel baluster-turned front legs, reduced in height and lacking lower blocks and feet.
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.