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Description: | The back frame of the chair is fully upholstered, which is typical of a chair of this genre and date. (Beard & Goodison, English Furniture 1500-1840, Phaidon, 1987, p. 97. Numerous examples of this chair form are illustrated, e.g.. Figure 5 by William Hallett, c. 1735 and Figure 7 at Warwick Castle. A similar example is also illustrated Thornton & Tomlin, P., Ham House, 1980, p. 181). The top of the back has slight circumference on the corners. The seat is supported on four cabriole legs with shaped ears and C-scrolls at the edges, the legs terminating in pad feet. In spite of the thick seat, the frame of this chair, with its raked back, is very well drawn and of good quality. It would have been part of a set position along a wall in front of the dado. Its original top cover, which may have been damask, would have matched that used on the wall behind to make a harmonious whole Additions And Alterations: The top cover and cushion and wadding on this side chair were applied in the twentieth century, but there remnants of earlier upholstery such as a strip of nineteenth century hessian and perhaps evidence of earlier hessian. The seat is fitted with Parker Knoll springs which were used post 1932, but it is tufted in the traditional manner. | Source: | Vads | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9126... | Go to resource |
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