Child's Folding Chair
1850-1870 (made)
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Child's folding chair of mahogany with canework panels in the back and seat. The chair (a side chair) is curvilinear in its planes: it has a dome-shaped cresting rail, back stays (which extend downward as front legs) finished with a turned knob-shaped finial at the top of each one, and a separate voided central panel filled in with canework. The rectangular seat, whose side edges extend backwards as legs, also has a separate voided central panel filled in with canework, and back and seat are joined with a pivotal wooden peg at each side.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Carved and turned mahogany, canework |
| Brief description | Child's folding chair; British, 1850-70 |
| Physical description | Child's folding chair of mahogany with canework panels in the back and seat. The chair (a side chair) is curvilinear in its planes: it has a dome-shaped cresting rail, back stays (which extend downward as front legs) finished with a turned knob-shaped finial at the top of each one, and a separate voided central panel filled in with canework. The rectangular seat, whose side edges extend backwards as legs, also has a separate voided central panel filled in with canework, and back and seat are joined with a pivotal wooden peg at each side. |
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| Object history | One of three items which were bought by the vendor, Anne Slevin, in a sale in Slane, Co Meath, and understood by her to have been continuously in the possession of the same local family which had originally purchased them. The items B.380 to 382-1994 were bought by the museum from her for a total of £1200 (RF94/1330) |
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| Accession number | B.382-1994 |
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| Record created | April 19, 2000 |
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