Open armchair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1775
Materials
Giltwood, silk
Measurements
94 x 59.5 x 49.5 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 882801.3
Summary
One of a set of ten giltwood Salon armchairs, English, circa 1775. Each with an oval padded back within a beaded frame with wheat sheaf cresting, padded open arms with scroll terminals and elegantly inswept moulded supports, the serpentine seat with fluted rails, on tapering fluted legs headed with a gadrooned knop. Of the ten, six have been re-upholstered in pale blue watered silk whilst the remaining four (of which this is one) have their original silk matching the settees from Wimpole (NT 882803 and NT 882804).
Full description
The chairs appear in an image of The Great Drawing Room at Wimpole Hall published in Country Life, 28 May 1927, page 845, fig 2. They also appear in a watercolour by William Bruce Ellis Ranken of The Great Drawing Room at Wimpole dated 1937 (see David Adshead, 'Wimpole, Architectural drawings and topographical views', NT 2007, plate 15).
Provenance
These chairs were brought to Lanhydrock from Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, the home of The Hon. Gerald Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden, after he sold it in 1938.
References
Hussey, 1927: Christopher Hussey. “Wimpole Hall II, Cambridgeshire: the seat of the Hon. Gerald Agar-Robartes.” Country Life 28 May 1927: pp.844-51., Page 845, Fig 2 Adshead 2007: David Adshead, Wimpole Architectural drawings and topographical views, The National Trust, 2007, Plate 15