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Not currently on display at the V&A
On display at Hillsborough Castle, Northern Ireland

Pair of Hall Chairs

1825-1835 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
England (made)

On loan to Hillsborough Castle, County Down, Northern Ireland.


Object details

Categories
Furniture
Interiors
Object type
Pair of hall chairs
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Chair
  • Hall Chair
Materials and techniques
Mahogany.
Mahogany
Carving
Painting
Brief description
Pair of hall chairs, mahogany with painted image of a wyvern, English, ca. 1830
Physical description
Hall chairs, a pair. Mahogany. The back of scimitar form, supported by "C" scrolls, enclosing a roundel with a painted crest of a wyvern. Mahogany seat supported at the rear by plain, backward-curving, and at the front by round, tapering, reeded, legs. Wooden studs at the front corners.
Dimensions
  • Height: 83.8cm (From grey file)
  • Width: 38.7cm (From grey file)
  • Depth: 50.8cm (From grey file)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Lady B.R.F. Henriques
Object history
Bequeathed by Lady Henriques, the acquisition recorded on Nominal File MA/1/H1634. The hall chairs came from 37 Eaton Square, London, where Lady Henriques had a collection of furniture made between 1790 and 1820, including a number of pieces in satinwood. She was the widow of Sir Philip Gutterez Henriques (1867-1950), a barrister and civil servant. Their only son, Philip, was killed in action in 1815, and from 1930, Lady Henriques had been seeking to make bequests to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and the V&A of pieces from her collection.
Subject depicted
Wyvern
Summary
On loan to Hillsborough Castle, County Down, Northern Ireland.
Collection
Furniture and Woodwork Collection
Accession number
W.20&A-1955

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
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