Armchair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1755 - circa 1765
Materials
Mahogany and cane, drop in seat frame is beech veneered with mahogany
Measurements
100 x 67.5 x 56.5 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 871423.3
Summary
An armchair, with un-carved seat rails and straight front arm uprights. One of a group of eleven mahogany and cane armchairs, English, circa 1755 - 1765. Six of the set with blind fret-carved seat rails and curved front arm uprights. Five of the set with un-carved seat rails and straight front arm uprights. Photographs show one chair of each design (need to be individually photographed and uploaded to CMS.) The back with re-entrant top corners and crossing ribs forming a pattern around a central octagon. The arms leaning outwards. Raised on four chamfered square-section legs headed by curved and pierced spandrels. The chairs with carved legs and seat rails are decorated with sunken circular bosses and lines or grooves.
Full description
Four of the set were pictured in Country Life, 27th April 1967, ‘Saltram, Devon – A Property of the National Trust’ in the Entrance hall. Two can be seen in the same location in another Country Life article dated January 23rd 1926 as well as another part of the suite in the window bay of the Dining Room.
Provenance
Date of acquisition not recorded, but at Saltram by 1926 and accepted in part payment of death duties by HM Treasury from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877 - 1951) and transferred to the National Trust in 1957.