Window cornice
workshop of Thomas Chippendale (fl. 1766 - 1771 when operating without a business partner)
Category
Fixtures and fittings
Date
circa 1771
Materials
Softwood, limewood, gesso, composition, gilt, paint
Place of origin
St. Martin's Lane
Order this imageCollection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 959754
Summary
A pair of green-painted and parcel-gilt window cornices, attributed to either Thomas Chippendale (fl. 1766 - 1771) or Chippendale, Haig & Co. (fl. 1771 - 1779) and made to match the 'India' and japanned green furniture made for the 'Ante room' and the 'Alcove Bedchamber' at Nostell Priory in 1771. Both topped by a moulding carved with gilt lotus leaves and with a green and gilt lambrequin lower edge, each cusp carved with a pair of gilt bellflowers.
Provenance
Probably purchased by Sir Rowland Winn, 5th Baronet, in 1771 and thence by descent until accepted by HM Treasury in lieu of death duties on the estate of Rowland Winn, 4th Baron Oswald (1916 - 1984), in 1986.
Makers and roles
workshop of Thomas Chippendale (fl. 1766 - 1771 when operating without a business partner), cabinetmaker workshop of Chippendale, Haig & Co. (fl. 1771 - 1779), cabinetmaker
References
Gilbert (1978): Christopher Gilbert, The Life & Work of Thomas Chippendale (1978), 2 volumes., Volume I, p. 191, p. 172; Volume II, Figure 519 Boynton and Goodison, 1969: Lindsay Boynton and Nicholas Goodison, 'The furniture of Thomas Chippendale at Nostell Priory', Burlington Magazine III, May 1969: pp. 281-5., 282 Boynton and Goodison, 1968: Lindsay Boynton, and Nicholas Goodison. “Thomas Chippendale at Nostell Priory.” Furniture History 4 (1968): pp.10-61., 57