Chair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1765
Materials
Mahogany, oak and velvet
Measurements
97 x 55.5 x 54 cm
Place of origin
England
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Saltram, Devon
NT 871277.2
Summary
One of a set of six mahogany chairs, English, circa 1765. Having a serpentine toprail with scrolling and moulded ends, the central section carved with a delicate spray of scrolling foliage either side of an oval cartouche. The splat of baluster shape, pierced with foils and carved with leaves. The drop-in seat later-upholstered in brown velvet and in plain seat rails raised on four chamfered square-section legs joined by an 'H'-shaped stretcher and a higher rear stretcher. The front leg and rail joints decorated with matted fretted spandrels. -- With similarities to chairs which appear in Chippendale's Director but no documentary evidence survives to enable a firm attribution to his workshop. The matted spandrels are not typical of his work.
Provenance
Presumably the property of Lady (Emily) Katherine Parker (1846 - 1910), daughter of the 2nd Earl of Morley and sister to Albert Edmund Parker (1843 - 1905), 3rd Earl of Morley and therefore probably originally from Whiteway, near Chudleigh, and brought to Saltram sometime in the 1920s. At Saltram in 1951 and accepted by HM Treasury in lieu of full payment of Death Duty from the Executors of Edmund Robert Parker (1877 - 1951), 4th Earl of Morley and transferred to the National Trust in 1957.
Marks and inscriptions
Seat pad rear rail: IV Seat rail: Lady K. Parker Rear seat rail: II