Open armchair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1750 - circa 1770
Materials
Mahogany, chestnut, cotton damask, horsehair, hessian, webbing
Measurements
98 x 70 x 75 cm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Saltram, Devon
NT 871449
Summary
A mahogany-framed and upholstered open armchair, English, mid-18th century, very similar to NT 871317. The rectangular back between upholstered armrests on curving arm supports either side of a stuff-over seat. Raised on four chamfered square-section legs joined by an 'H'-shaped stretcher and a higher rear stretcher. Later pale pink cotton damask cover and later castors. -- With similarities to three mahogany-framed window seats at Saltram, NT 871489.1 - .3.
Provenance
Date and method of introduction to Saltram not recorded, but at Saltram by 1962 and part of the Endowment given to the National Trust by Montagu Brownlow Parker (1878 - 1962), 5th Earl of Morley.