Armchair
1750-1760 (made)
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| Place of origin |
The ladderback chair was originally made in the country, typically for cottages and farmhouses. It was usually made of British woods such as beech and ash. The type was imitated, and refined, in London workshops.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Carved mahogany; modern seat covering in embroidered linen. |
| Brief description | English, 1750-60, mahogany, ladderback |
| Physical description | Ladder-back armchair, carved mahogany, with modern top cover in coloured embroidery on linen. The back is composed of curvilinear pierced horizontal rails with circular central carvings. Plain square straight legs with middle and back cross-rails. |
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| Object history | The chair was purchased from Walter Skull & Son Ltd., High Wycombe along with a number of other objects. Formerly on loan to the Geffrye Museum (1920-2006). |
| Summary | The ladderback chair was originally made in the country, typically for cottages and farmhouses. It was usually made of British woods such as beech and ash. The type was imitated, and refined, in London workshops. |
| Associated object | |
| Bibliographic reference | Chairs with comparable ladder-back design are illustrated in Cescinsky, Herbert, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, 1909 p244, Plates 265-267. They are wrongly described as Chippendale, who did not publish any designs for ladder-back chairs. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | CIRC.434-1912 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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