Untitled
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1765
Materials
Padouk, oak, silk, damask
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 871346
Summary
A set of seven padouk chairs, Chinese Export, circa 1765. With minor variations in dimensions and design - NT 871346.3 significantly shorter, and possibly cut down; NT 871346.7 and .8 are armchairs. Upholstered in three different fabrics. -- A set of chairs made in padouk, and with the same toprail and spandrels heading the legs, survives at Kenwood House. Some of the set were recorded in 18th century inventories drawn up for Lord Mansfield.
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.
References
The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Chairs for Viewing the World through Time, Hong-Kong, 7 June- 15 September 2014, p. 444