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Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1780
Materials
Mahogany, beech, hessian, webbing, horsehair, velvet
Place of origin
England
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Saltram, Devon
NT 871288
Summary
A set of six mahogany and mahogany-veneered chairs, English, late 18th century, one of which is stamped 'I.W.' or 'J.W.'. Each having a shaped toprail, carved with a rosette with a pierced centre and above a pierced Gothic splat, pierced with lancet arches, quatrefoils and cusps, between square-section uprights with moulded collars and topped by small ball finials. The stuff-over seat upholstered in later red velvet. On chamfered square-section legs topped by pierced shaped spandrels. The splat chamfered to its reverse.
Provenance
Date of introduction to Saltram not recorded, but at Saltram by 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.