High Chair
1640-1680 (made)
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| Place of origin |
(original register entry) Child's armchair. Turned oak with decoration inlaid in holly and bog-wood. Toprail with symmetrical scrollwork carved in countersunk relief with lateral scrolled supports. Back panel inlaid with a formal symmetrical tulip design and surrounded by a border of inlaid check pattern. Plain seat with notched edge ends resting on turned front supports. Plain footrest, notched at the ends, supported by turned front legs connected by a turned stretcher. Rectangular back legs and four rectangular stretchers
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Oak with holly and bog wood |
| Brief description | Child's oak high chair, inlaid with a design of flowers in holly and bogwood; English, 1640-80, inscribed RW 1680 |
| Physical description | (original register entry) Child's armchair. Turned oak with decoration inlaid in holly and bog-wood. Toprail with symmetrical scrollwork carved in countersunk relief with lateral scrolled supports. Back panel inlaid with a formal symmetrical tulip design and surrounded by a border of inlaid check pattern. Plain seat with notched edge ends resting on turned front supports. Plain footrest, notched at the ends, supported by turned front legs connected by a turned stretcher. Rectangular back legs and four rectangular stretchers |
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| Marks and inscriptions | RW/ 1680 ((from the original register entry) In the back of the top rail the initials R.W. above the date 1680, possibly for the owner ror user, are cut, perhaps retrospectively) |
| Object history | Received from Messrs Frank Partridge & Sons Ltd, 144-146 New Bond Street, London, W1, who had bought the chair at auction at Sotheby's on the museum's behalf (RF 46/425). The chair was Lot 134 in a sale held on 14/02/1946, from which Partridge's also bought three 16/17th century samplers (T.40 to B-1946) for the museum. The museum acquired a number of pieces from Partidge's over the years, but this would appear to be the only piece of children's furniture). |
| Subject depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | Illustrated figure 170, p 199, and described on p 203 (where a date of about 1670 is suggested) in Macquoid, P: History of English Furniture (Vol I) The Age of Oak (1904)
(information from original register)
Also shown in Gelles, Edward: Nursery Furniture (Constable, 1982) |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | W.6-1946 |
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| Record created | February 3, 2009 |
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