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Sgabello Chair

1590-1600 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Venice (made)

On loan to Oxburgh Hall.

Object details

Category
Furniture
Object type
Sgabello chair
Materials and techniques
Walnut, carved
Walnut
Carving
Brief description
Italian, Venetian, 1590-1600, walnut, 55/515
Physical description
Carved wood, partly gilt. The front support of interlaced strap work, with a mask in the centre, flanked by two terminal figures, the back of similar work with a shield of arms in the centre, and surmounted by two cupids.
Dimensions
  • Height: 104cm
  • Width: 38cm
  • Depth: 46cm
54.2cm seat height
Style
Renaissance
Gallery label
Label text c.1930 while displayed in Tapestry Court: North-East Block. West Side. [gallery 44 ‘East Central Court’ c.1909-1952] CHAIR (sgabello). Walnut carved in openwork and gilt. VENETIAN; 16th century. 7181-1860. (1930)
Credit line
Soulages Collection
Object history
Bought (Soulages collection) £10
On loan to the National Trust at Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk from 1955-2019
Historical context
See Alberici, pl. 92 for an apparently identical chair in a private collection, attrib. Venice 1590-1600.
Summary
On loan to Oxburgh Hall.
Bibliographic references
  • See illustration in: Frieda Schottmüller, Furniture and Interior Decoration of the Italian Renaissance, (Stuttgart, 1928) figs. 390-391
  • John Hungerford Pollen, Ancient & Modern Furniture & Woodwork (London: George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1874), 111. “7181. ’60. CHAIR. Carved walnut wood, partly gilt. The front support of interlaced strap work, with a mask in the centre, flanked by two terminal figures, the back of similar work, with a shield of arms in the centre, and surmounted by two cupids. Venetian. 16th century. H. 3 ft. 4½ in., W. 15 in. Bought (Soulages Coll.), 10l. The arms borne on this chair are three lions passant, each holding a branch.”
  • Frederick Litchfield, Illustrated History of Furniture from the Earliest to the Present Time. 4th ed., London and New York: Truslove, Hanson and Comba Ltd., 1899, illustrated p. 56.
Collection
Furniture and Woodwork Collection
Accession number
7181-1860

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Record createdJanuary 13, 2006
Record URL
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