Armchair
1840-1845 (made)
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Object Type
Chairs with legs arranged in an x-shape were used by designers to create Tudor interiors. This chair was based on a medieval chair at York Minster.
People
Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven (1782-1850), was a self-taught architect, collector, traveller and medieval enthusiast, whose marriage to an heiress enabled him to demolish the modest Georgian house at Adare in County Limerick in the 1830s and replace it with a vast Gothic mansion. He employed the architect L.N. Cottingham (1787-1847) to make working drawings of his architectural ideas and also to design appropriate furniture, including library bookcases and a pair of these chairs.
Places
The Long Gallery at Adare Manor was furnished with medieval-style furnishings, either old or new, by Lord and Lady Dunraven. During their visits to the Continent in 1834 and 1836 they acquired 17th-century Flemish carved oak choir stalls. They bought Elizabethan portraits, used 15th-century carved panels for the doors and commissioned designs for heraldic stained glass from the antiquary Thomas Willement (1786-1871). The room also contained Victorian copies of 17th-century Indian ebony settees and two of these chairs.
Chairs with legs arranged in an x-shape were used by designers to create Tudor interiors. This chair was based on a medieval chair at York Minster.
People
Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven (1782-1850), was a self-taught architect, collector, traveller and medieval enthusiast, whose marriage to an heiress enabled him to demolish the modest Georgian house at Adare in County Limerick in the 1830s and replace it with a vast Gothic mansion. He employed the architect L.N. Cottingham (1787-1847) to make working drawings of his architectural ideas and also to design appropriate furniture, including library bookcases and a pair of these chairs.
Places
The Long Gallery at Adare Manor was furnished with medieval-style furnishings, either old or new, by Lord and Lady Dunraven. During their visits to the Continent in 1834 and 1836 they acquired 17th-century Flemish carved oak choir stalls. They bought Elizabethan portraits, used 15th-century carved panels for the doors and commissioned designs for heraldic stained glass from the antiquary Thomas Willement (1786-1871). The room also contained Victorian copies of 17th-century Indian ebony settees and two of these chairs.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Sweet chestnut, with modern upholstery based on the original |
| Brief description | Adare Manor chair |
| Physical description | Armchair of sweet chestnut. Chair legs arranged in an x-shape. Modern upholstery in red based on the original. |
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| Gallery label | British Galleries:
This chair is closely copied from an illustration of a Medieval chair in 'Exemplars of Tudor Architecture... and observations on Furniture of the Tudor Period' by Thomas Hunt, published in 1830. It was made for the Long Gallery at Adare Manor, County Limerick, a house that was designed in the 1830s by L.N. Cottingham in the Tudor Revival style.(27/03/2003) |
| Object history | Probably commissioned by the 2nd Earl of Dunraven for the Long Gallery, Adare Manor, County Limerick, IrelandProbably designed by Lewis Nockalls Cottingham (born in Laxfield, Suffolk, 1787, died in 1847); possibly made by the cabinet-maker Samuel Pratt, London |
| Summary | Object Type Chairs with legs arranged in an x-shape were used by designers to create Tudor interiors. This chair was based on a medieval chair at York Minster. People Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven (1782-1850), was a self-taught architect, collector, traveller and medieval enthusiast, whose marriage to an heiress enabled him to demolish the modest Georgian house at Adare in County Limerick in the 1830s and replace it with a vast Gothic mansion. He employed the architect L.N. Cottingham (1787-1847) to make working drawings of his architectural ideas and also to design appropriate furniture, including library bookcases and a pair of these chairs. Places The Long Gallery at Adare Manor was furnished with medieval-style furnishings, either old or new, by Lord and Lady Dunraven. During their visits to the Continent in 1834 and 1836 they acquired 17th-century Flemish carved oak choir stalls. They bought Elizabethan portraits, used 15th-century carved panels for the doors and commissioned designs for heraldic stained glass from the antiquary Thomas Willement (1786-1871). The room also contained Victorian copies of 17th-century Indian ebony settees and two of these chairs. |
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| Accession number | W.71-1982 |
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| Record created | March 27, 2003 |
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