High-backed chair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1705
Materials
Turned, carved and joined oak
Measurements
118 x 45 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Sizergh Castle, Cumbria
NT 997976.2
Summary
A high-backed chair, one of a near pair of oak high-backed chairs, English, circa 1705, with slight differences in design. This example with arched and scroll-carved pierced cresting above a back of two slender and two broad moulded slats, between finial-topped baluster-turned uprights. The paneled seat raised on block- and baluster-turned legs united by an arched and scroll-carved pierced stretcher, and with multiple plain side stretchers and later double ball feet.
Provenance
In 1906, this pair of chairs stood in the Morning Room at Sizergh, and were photographed there by Country Life. Given by Henry Hornyold Strickland (1890 – 1975) with Sizergh Castle and its estates in 1950.
References
Country life. 1897-, Vol. XIX, No. 495, June 1906, p. 945.