Secrétaire
attributed to Thomas Chippendale (Otley 1718 - London 1779)
Category
Furniture
Date
1775
Materials
Brass, Bronze, Deal, Gilt, Leather, Oak, Pine, Polyfoil lacquer, Mahogany, Beech?
Measurements
1370 x 880 x 430 mm
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Osterley Park and House, London
NT 771939
Summary
A lady's secretaire attributed to Thomas Chippendale (1718-1779), veneered with black and gold Chinese lacquer, with additional English japanning and gilding, c. 1775.
Provenance
Apparently supplied to Harewood House, Yorkshire, early 1770s; at Osterley Park, Middlesex, by the 1870s (possibly the ‘japanned secretaire’ recorded in the house as early as 1782); listed as being in the Etruscan Dressing Room at Osterley in the 1922 inventory (and shown there in a Country Life photograph taken in that year, but published in 1926); sold from Osterley at some point between 1922 and 1949; private collection, London, 1950s; the Rose family, Northumberland; their sale, Phillips, Gateshead, 1993; purchased by the National Trust from Hotspur and David Franses with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, a gift from an anonymous private donor and a grant from the Art Fund, 1996.
Makers and roles
attributed to Thomas Chippendale (Otley 1718 - London 1779) , maker