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Description: | The back uprights of this chair have simple moulding running up the outer edge, the tops terminating in outward splaying scrolls. The top rail also has a central ‘paper' scroll. The splat is pierced and arcaded at the top with hand carved tassels and two outer scrolls. The four splat verticals are joined by patera and the splat terminates in a shoe. Similar chair backs can be seen on an armchair and two side chairs (Cescinsky, Herbert, English Furniture; From Gothic to Sheraton, Bonanza Books, 1968, reprint of 2nd Ed, 1937, p. 256). The chair stands on four cabriole legs and the back legs are simple cabriole legs that terminate in pad feet, the front ones are unusual. The knees and the shaped ears have intricate grape vine carving. These front legs terminate in claw and ball feet of rather flat form. The stuff-over seat is twentieth century, but with sympathetic webbing and base hessian. The restoration has been well executed. There is evidence that the chair once had arms, but it is thought that these may have been a later addition and removed again as inappropriate. When this was done is not known. The form of back and tassel and vine carving are distinctive Irish features, as is the rather grand stance of the chair. A similar armchair and triple chair-back settee, in the National Museum of Scotland, (The Knight of Glin and James Peill, Irish Furniture, Yale, 2007, p. 209). Additions And Alterations: Three seat rails and shoe replaced; three ears and scrolls on top rail restored; feet cut down; upholstery twentieth century. | Source: | Vads | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9124... | Go to resource |
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