Hall seat
Category
Furniture
Date
1760
Materials
Beechwood, Leather, Mahogany, Oak, Pine
Measurements
290 x 2100 x 250 mm
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Osterley Park and House, London
NT 771724.3
Summary
one of a set of four hall bench seats. Carved wood, painted white. Flat straight, seat, upholstered in blue leather; no back. Rolled over ends upholstered in blue leather, the wooden edges carved with a relief of scrolls terminating in a patera. Seat rail decorated with paterae. Slightly curving leg at each corner, carved with a ram's head and trailing tusks at the knee, flanked by scrolling acanthus, and terminating in a hairy paw foot. Two additional straight fluted legs at the front with smaller ram's head and paw feet. One seat rail is pine, one mahogany and two oak. They all differ slightly in length as do the bays of the wall against which they stand.
Provenance
Osterley Park Heirloom