Chair
1760-1800 (made)
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Object Type
This chair is a simplified version of a fashionable style of chair. It is made of native woods, probably grown locally. It might have been undertaken by a carpenter rather than a professional chair-maker, because it is not strongly made.
Design & Designing
The chair-back has trellis-work in a Chinoiserie style, but the chair seat is deeply carved in a saddle shape, like traditional country chairs, such as Windsor chairs. The top rail suggests the shape of a dairy yoke, but is also similar to those on Chinese chairs and adds to the Chinoiserie design. All four legs are chamfered into octagonal shapes.
Materials & Making
The chair seat is made of solid elm, the other parts probably in cherry. The parts of the chair are fixed to the seat with projecting tenons. The tenons from the legs are visible on the surface of the seat. Small pieces of wood have been let into the seat where the elm had knots or splits. Additional pieces of oak have had to be screwed to the joint of the legs and the back to strengthen the chair-back.
This chair is a simplified version of a fashionable style of chair. It is made of native woods, probably grown locally. It might have been undertaken by a carpenter rather than a professional chair-maker, because it is not strongly made.
Design & Designing
The chair-back has trellis-work in a Chinoiserie style, but the chair seat is deeply carved in a saddle shape, like traditional country chairs, such as Windsor chairs. The top rail suggests the shape of a dairy yoke, but is also similar to those on Chinese chairs and adds to the Chinoiserie design. All four legs are chamfered into octagonal shapes.
Materials & Making
The chair seat is made of solid elm, the other parts probably in cherry. The parts of the chair are fixed to the seat with projecting tenons. The tenons from the legs are visible on the surface of the seat. Small pieces of wood have been let into the seat where the elm had knots or splits. Additional pieces of oak have had to be screwed to the joint of the legs and the back to strengthen the chair-back.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Elm seat, with other parts in a fruitwood, possibly cherry |
| Brief description | Chair, English, 1760-1770, elm |
| Physical description | The following description has been transcribed from the original accession record of 1941. Chair, Elm and cherry wood. The top rail of curved outline concave in the centre, supported on straight uprights which enclose bass forming a lattice work design. The seat formed of a slab of elm wood is dished and supported on four legs inclining outwards and of chamfered hexagonal forms below a square section. They are united by curved brackets. |
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| Gallery label | British Galleries:
This chair is made in a radically simplified Chinoiserie style, as can be seen by comparing it with the elaborately carved one on the right. Its maker combined Chinese frets with traditional English chair-making features such as the shaped seat. Plain chairs like this were often made for tea houses or garden buildings.(27/03/2003) |
| Credit line | Given by Miss M. G. Crawley |
| Summary | Object Type This chair is a simplified version of a fashionable style of chair. It is made of native woods, probably grown locally. It might have been undertaken by a carpenter rather than a professional chair-maker, because it is not strongly made. Design & Designing The chair-back has trellis-work in a Chinoiserie style, but the chair seat is deeply carved in a saddle shape, like traditional country chairs, such as Windsor chairs. The top rail suggests the shape of a dairy yoke, but is also similar to those on Chinese chairs and adds to the Chinoiserie design. All four legs are chamfered into octagonal shapes. Materials & Making The chair seat is made of solid elm, the other parts probably in cherry. The parts of the chair are fixed to the seat with projecting tenons. The tenons from the legs are visible on the surface of the seat. Small pieces of wood have been let into the seat where the elm had knots or splits. Additional pieces of oak have had to be screwed to the joint of the legs and the back to strengthen the chair-back. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | W.20-1941 |
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| Record created | March 27, 2003 |
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