Armchair
1600-1680 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Stained wood (apparently ash with fruitwood diagonal back supports), with a triangular seat consisting of three oak boards, supported on three turned legs, which are continued above the seat to form the back and the supports of the arms; the back is completed by a horizontal cross-rail resting on the back leg, and further strengthened by two small baluster-shaped bars and by the turned arm-rails. The seat is edged by three plain turned rails (grooved to hold the seat panels) and the legs are connected together by three similar rails.
Construction
All the elements are turned except for the boards of the seat which appear to be riven oak. The seat rails and stretchers are tenoned into the uprights, with one small diameter tenon passing directly through a larger diameter tenon. The arm pieces are pegged at both ends. The back upright is tenoned (and wedged) into the top rail. The short diagonal back supports are loose tenoned into the upright and top rail.
Modifications
Three feet tipped (7/7/3cm). Dark varnish overall. Wood woodworm damages and numerous small losses, notably to the turned baluster rings on the front legs and top rail (rhs).
Construction
All the elements are turned except for the boards of the seat which appear to be riven oak. The seat rails and stretchers are tenoned into the uprights, with one small diameter tenon passing directly through a larger diameter tenon. The arm pieces are pegged at both ends. The back upright is tenoned (and wedged) into the top rail. The short diagonal back supports are loose tenoned into the upright and top rail.
Modifications
Three feet tipped (7/7/3cm). Dark varnish overall. Wood woodworm damages and numerous small losses, notably to the turned baluster rings on the front legs and top rail (rhs).
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Turned wood (probably ash and fruitwood, with oak seat) |
| Brief description | Dutch, 17th century |
| Physical description | Stained wood (apparently ash with fruitwood diagonal back supports), with a triangular seat consisting of three oak boards, supported on three turned legs, which are continued above the seat to form the back and the supports of the arms; the back is completed by a horizontal cross-rail resting on the back leg, and further strengthened by two small baluster-shaped bars and by the turned arm-rails. The seat is edged by three plain turned rails (grooved to hold the seat panels) and the legs are connected together by three similar rails. Construction All the elements are turned except for the boards of the seat which appear to be riven oak. The seat rails and stretchers are tenoned into the uprights, with one small diameter tenon passing directly through a larger diameter tenon. The arm pieces are pegged at both ends. The back upright is tenoned (and wedged) into the top rail. The short diagonal back supports are loose tenoned into the upright and top rail. Modifications Three feet tipped (7/7/3cm). Dark varnish overall. Wood woodworm damages and numerous small losses, notably to the turned baluster rings on the front legs and top rail (rhs). |
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| Object history | Bought for £2 9s 3d This chair was formerly in the collection of Emile Peyre (1824-1904), a notable Parisian collector of French medieval and renaissance artefacts. In 1895 the South Kensington Museum (renamed the V&A in 1900), bought over 300 pieces of furniture and woodwork from him, (as well as sculpture and metalwork), at a cost of £11,878. 16s. 9d. On loan to the National Trust at Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk from 1955-2016 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 843-1895 |
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| Record created | January 13, 2006 |
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