Window seat
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1700 - circa 1715
Materials
Beech, paint, leather, brass, webbing, horsehair
Measurements
48 x 107 x 54 cm
Collection
Saltram, Devon
NT 871332.2
Summary
A double stool, or window seat, one of a pair of beech double stools or window seats, English, early 18th century. NT 871332.2 recently discovered, and covered in what is probably original leather. NT 871332.1 covered in later fabric. Of slightly serpentine outline and with a stuff-over upholstered seat. This example covered leather fixed with brass dome-headed studs. With probably original horsehair stuffing and webbing. Raised on six moulded and slightly cabriole legs, painted white.
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 and transferred to the National Trust in 1957.