13 10 191 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/9721705d6a07a1829da0642c57696a20.jpg 177bb1196a52cf82f04ffebd46783d09 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/448a7b027f348af2be9f4e037717bcd0.jpg 8c90513d1b2d2b3418372877784a79f2 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/29101179e026a27a0b18c4b0c2cbe563.jpg f298ae1acddb6b0bc16db5b8d966d0b1 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/6a7d308f6fad4010d2dc7813e73a3b08.jpg 8c66dd0856be31afab40429a595930e5 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/a02a242dc5f228deadaa1eb005f47425.jpg 93baf11244f919c47ce989a36654b05e Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Moving Image, Still Image, Text or one of the other types. Full Description This painted beech rout armchair has an open chamfered cartouche-shaped back with five tapering and chamfered vertical spindles shaped into the top rail to form gothic arches. The out-swept shaped arms terminate in down-turned scrolls and rest on curved supports rising from the seat rails. The chair has a shaped caned seat with a serpentine front rail and shaped apron. It is raised on square and tapering front legs and flared back legs. They are joined by later turned stretchers at the front and sides; the front stretcher is raised higher than at the sides. There is a later squab cushion. This chair has its original caned seat and some of the original blue and white painted decoration. Its form was possibly inspired by Hepplewhite’s design for ‘Cabriole Chairs’ published in The Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer's Guide (1794). Rout chairs were used at dances and banquets where large numbers of inexpensive but decorative chairs were required, often hired for the event. They might also be used in a domestic setting where they might normally be kept in different rooms and brought together for parties (Boram, 2015). Thomas Sheraton’s The Cabinet Dictionary (1803) described them as: ‘Small painted chairs with rush bottoms, lent out by cabinet makers for hire, as a supply of seats at general entertainments, or feasts; hence their name rout chair’. In c. 1765, Ayliffe & Webb, Chair Makers and Turners of 49 Wardour Street, Soho, announced: ‘Chairs lent for Routs’ (cited in Gloag, 1991). Condition In good original condition, retains some of its original paint finish. The caning is original. Three stretchers are later additions, it may not have had stretchers originally. The feet are tipped. Materials Beech. Cane. Physical Dimensions The physical size of the object H. 94 W. 58 D. 58 Parker Numbers 1235a. 2062. The arms of this chair inspired the arm shape of a Parker Knoll chair, PK735, produced in 1951. Provenance Purchased by Frederick Parker & Sons on 1st December 1911 from Brackett for £6.0.0. Notes G. Hepplewhite, The Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1794, plate 11. J. Boram, ‘The Domestic Context for Gillows’ Rush- and Cane-Seated Chairs’, Regional Furniture, vol. XXIX, 2015, pp. 50-52. T. Sheraton, Cabinet Dictionary, 1803, vol. II, p. 299. J. Gloag, A Complete Dictionary of Furniture, revised and expanded by C. Edwards, Woodstock, 1991, p. 572. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context FPF221 Title A name given to the resource Painted beech armchair with caned seat. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1780-1800 Description An account of the resource Painted beech rout armchair with a spindle back and caned seat. https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/a8ff2440318bce8872f1a7ad5eba501e.jpg d1f31706714344072740dc97dbe1b5ad https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/c3f84a4097fd5b91430c71792471b66b.jpg 298351d00246c6771851765d70b5f241 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/b6d52e4ada29bb8ad48405e77269f824.jpg 0ef68768a02fa51628182b0d94195cfd https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/0535c32263911bb9261f341ca0c26a82.jpg d5e9442c974ea669a594f84301167641 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/8b5ec96a6cf79ae87b10266f10679253.jpg 29907fa38bb3145706c815a72d57fb39 Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Moving Image, Still Image, Text or one of the other types. Full Description This beech armchair has a scrolled tablet rail painted with polychrome cherubs on a blue ground. Below the crest rail there are six vertical fluted bars above an interlaced moulded guilloche set between two moulded rails. Tapering and moulded back posts are continuous with the square-section and flared back legs. Down-swept arms terminate in scrolls above down-swept supports with carved lion’s paws resting on turned and fluted columns at the tops of the front legs, which are sabre-form, fluted and tapering. The seat rails are channel-moulded and gilded to resemble panels. The painted decoration in ivory and parcel-gilt is original but worn. The caning in the seat is original. A 20th century brown velvet squab cushion is now missing. This chair relates to a design in Sheraton’s The Cabinet Dictionary (1803), plate 3, no. 2. It illustrates the emergence of a new fashion whereby the height of the chair back was reduced and the arms start at a higher point on the back posts, just below the crest rail. The frame is lighter overall, and in this example is a derivation of the neo-classical style popular during the Regency period. In 1794, Hepplewhite advised that: ‘Japanned chairs should have cane bottoms, with linen or cotton cases over cushions to accord with the general hue of the chair (Hepplewhite, 1794). Condition The right arm is replaced. The cane is original, with some damage. A 20th century squab cushion recorded in 1993 is now missing. Materials Beech. Cane. Physical Dimensions The physical size of the object H. 84 W. 54 D. 56 Parker Numbers OM 3726. See Frederick Parker Archive, Box 55, Ms. FPA050, page 81. Provenance Purchased by Frederick Parker & Sons on 22nd June 1914 from Adamson for £1.10.0. Notes Thomas Sheraton, The Cabinet Dictionary, 1803, plate 3, no. 2. A. Hepplewhite & Co., The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer’s Guide, 1794, p. 2. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context FPF281 Title A name given to the resource Painted beech armchair with caned seat. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1790-1810 Description An account of the resource Painted and gilded beech armchair with caned seat. https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/5713ed991d6611b382e487ef62198def.jpg ae35a2f3e34d1618e0d0ad8e64ea1551 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/cb4f54d95207c0dc5fdbc7d005898be7.jpg 409c09aa8e231a0be2166836d37dc40b https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/e9eb68d65ac5e0b0402c4d26f86fb724.jpg 7908d6ddbd561522332d005aeed5b316 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/4d5ec29ecf3dbd354034b598bca2fb75.jpg d08d59081e516cd1ebe8e38c0c2d969f https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/a653896c51b857ea50dce6ab20b31c35.jpg 75868b18987d53ad02e9305d55403cc3 Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Moving Image, Still Image, Text or one of the other types. Full Description This painted and partially gilt armchair has an oval back with openwork carving in the form of an anthemion. Out-scrolled arms with flower-head paterae carved on the arm terminals join down-swept supports. A shaped stuff-over seat with tapering sides and a serpentine front is covered and close-nailed with a modern flowered print. The chair is painted and decorated with pendants of husks and berries. It is raised on cabriole legs at the front with fan motifs painted at the top of the legs and terminate in rounded feet; the back legs are square-sectioned and flared. The upholstery includes the original base cloth and webbing, and a sample of the previous cover is tacked to the webbing. This chair retains its original painted finish of orange and white on a black ground, which reflects the colours of decorated ‘Etruscan’ vases such as those in Sir William Hamilton’s collection, published between 1767-76, in d’Hancarville’s Collection Of Etruscan, Greek And Roman Antiquities From The Cabinet Of The Honble. Wm. Hamilton. Hepplewhite wrote in The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer’s Guide that: ‘for chairs, a new and very elegant fashion has arisen within these few years, of finishing them with painted or japanned work, which gives a rich and splendid appearance to the minuter parts of the ornaments… and by assorting the prevailing colour to the furniture and light of the room, affords opportunity, by the grounds which may be introduced, to make the whole accord in harmony, with a pleasing and striking effect to the eye’ (Hepplewhite, 1788). A set of six satinwood armchairs with a similar anthemion back was supplied by John Linnell (1729-96) to Nathanial Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale, at Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire, c. 1775-80 (Hayward, Kirkham, 1980). A pattern for a chair with an oval back carved with a pierced anthemion and a serpentine front seat-rail is in the Gillows’ Workmen’s Price Agreement of 1785, and a similar chair in the Estimate Sketch Books in March 1785 was priced at £11s 8d. The Gillows’ Waste Book describes such chairs supplied in the same period to a John Shaw for export on the ship Barbara as: ‘Honeysuckle pierced ball’ [ie, baluster] (Stuart, 2008). For comparable chairs with anthemion backs in the Frederick Parker Collection see FPF242 and 376. Condition The chair is in good original condition, with original paint decoration. The webbing and base cloth is original, the cover modern. Materials Beech. Upholstery. Physical Dimensions The physical size of the object H. 94 W. 61 D. 58 Marks Stamped under front seat-rail ‘TW’. Parker Numbers OM 739, pattern no. 2118. See: Box 55. FPA050. Page 14. 1950. Provenance Purchased by Frederick Parker & Sons, in stock 1915, valued at £7.10.0 Notes A. Hepplewhite & Co., The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer’s Guide, 1778, p. 2 H. Hayward, P. Kirkham, William and John Linnell: Eighteenth Century London Furniture Makers, London, 1980, vol. II, p. 48, fig. 95; vol. I, p. 113 S. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, Antique Collectors’ Club, 2008, vol. I, p. 135, fig. 1B, no. 17; p. 176; p. 175, Plate 138. For similar chairs see also: <a href="https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1139574.1">Armchair 1139574.1 | National Trust collections</a> M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, London, 1982, p. 134, fig. P/10. A pair of chairs sold by Christie’s at Ven House, Somerset on 22 June 1999, lot 1050. A set of chairs sold by Thomas Roddick Auctioneers, on 19 October 2000. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context FPF226 Title A name given to the resource Painted beech armchair with oval anthemion back. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1780-1800 Description An account of the resource Painted beech armchair with oval anthemion back and upholstered seat. https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/fd4779d80af3e6d48199e103bdbe90cb.jpg 68cdcdc8ec73320d741e02fa29f9f9ee https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/fbc574801d0f2cb94a87adb43d50972e.jpg a8386e0e6664d4b5baf5fb846586aa0a https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/10f7889252dba282dbb6523470f14ccb.jpg d1ff6c902b5c720e03a59cb9f6b89e55 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/d9d9ddc5d12470a5796cf854825a7575.jpg de7d971a17254bbf14fdd0919faa1aa9 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/02b3f1d1289d0945a45ff8b466b7e65f.jpg ea339a1b4b3445e3e7dc181f2ae37c79 Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Moving Image, Still Image, Text or one of the other types. Full Description This painted beech armchair has an arched crest rail above a splat comprising a central caned panel flanked by pierced guilloche side panels, with a lower rail just above the seat. The back posts are square-section and tapering, continuous with the squared and flared back legs. The shaped and tapering caned seat has a bow-front seat rail and there is a squab cushion covered in a modern green silk, now perished. The moulded down-swept arms end in painted scrolls, meeting arm supports which are continuous with the front columnar legs. The front legs have ‘toupie’ feet (toupie is French for a spinning top). Much of the original painted decoration in ochre, green and black survives, although in poor condition; the paintwork on the front legs simulates fluting. The cane in the back and seat is original. Screw-holes under the seat rails reveal how this chair was secured during transport. A similar pierced guilloche fret combined with a central caned panel can be found on a pair of caned armchairs, originally either painted and/or gilded, and inscribed on the back seat rail ‘Pettifer’, possibly Edward Pettifer (fl. 1808), in the Lady Lever Art Gallery (Wood, 2009). They were part of a set of twelve chairs, ten of which were sold at Christie’s, New York, in 1994. Another slightly different variation with central painted panels sold at Christie’s in 1987 and again in 2007. These comparable chairs, including FPF280, are in the Anglo-French style promoted by Henry Holland (1745-1806), architect-designer to the Prince of Wales (later George IV) at Carlton House, London, and at Southill Park and Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire. A rectangular chair back with a rounded seat was a popular fashion in Britain in this period, and together with columnar legs, it characterises the Anglo-French style. Condition All the legs were re- tipped on 2nd June 1931 for 15s. Left pierced guilloche panel on the chair back is replaced. Approximately 50% of the original paint finish in ochre, green and black remains. Curved section to top rail split and very loose. Squab cushion stuffing exposed with top cover rotten and torn. Materials Beech. Cane. Upholstered squab. Physical Dimensions The physical size of the object H. 86 W. 53 D. 53 Parker Numbers Cloth label stitched to underside of seat, with painted number 2005. OM 2005, pattern no. 2705. See Frederick Parker archive, Box 55, Ms. FPA050, page 45. Provenance Purchased by Frederick Parker & Sons on 14th December 1912 for £2.5.0. Notes L. Wood, Upholstered Furniture in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, New Haven and London, 2009, vol. II, pp. 682-688, no. 65. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context FPF280 Title A name given to the resource Painted beech caned armchair. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1790-1810 Description An account of the resource Painted beech caned armchair. https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/7b41c66f556a5d9a0c7cc7af01653a60.jpg 4eff12e946593fea7031c3c23e3d103d https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/626db3b8abdedb123a55564bd1852f3b.jpg 5ccc86ea2446816a5b63edd0554127eb https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/558f71ca309a95aefbf5471b824bac2a.jpg 85043b74a4d01829d0833f77a6465607 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/cba1342d731a8626c8f9a0a13854b7d7.jpg 381e12543d06453f525b83fd2b9ad060 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/256e7854cc5bd793a37a58e88e3b051b.jpg 9c19105a4f21f7a46115d835ae471c71 Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Moving Image, Still Image, Text or one of the other types. Full Description This painted beech and caned chair is in the neo-classical style made fashionable by the architect-designer, Robert Adam (1728-92) in the late 1770s and early 1780s. The chair has a concave oval caned back with a channel-moulded frame, indented at the bottom. The stuff-over seat is shaped at the sides and serpentine at the front; the side rails are fluted and the front rail is carved with anthemion oval panels in the centre and on the corners. There are cramping slots on the inside of the seat rails, used during assembly. The chair is raised on turned, tapering, fluted front legs with nulling at the tops, terminating in ‘toupie’ feet (toupie is French for a spinning top), and square, flared legs at the back. The seat was originally caned but has been upholstered in the 20th century; the chair has also been re-painted in the 20th century. This chair with its fluted frame is tentatively attributed to the London cabinet- and chair-making partnership of William Ince (d. 1804) and John Mayhew (1736-1811). A suite of chairs with very similar seat rails and legs was supplied by Ince and Mayhew to Sir Thomas Edwardes (d. 1785) for his house in Portman Square, London (Goodman, 2016). Ince and Mayhew worked with the architect-designer Robert Adam from as early as 1764 at Coventry House, Piccadilly and Croome Court, Worcestershire, for the 6th Earl of Coventry. The firm appears to have either followed Adam’s designs exactly, for example, the Derby House commode (Roberts, 1985), or created their own interpretations of his designs. Adam chose Ince and Mayhew to supply the furnishings for some of his most fashionable interiors, suggesting a close partnership, probably more so than that between Adam and Chippendale, who was largely independent. Another set of ten armchairs with similar seat rails and legs, formerly from the Great Drawing Room at Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, is now in the collection of the National Trust at Lanhydrock, Cornwall (NT 882801). Condition The seat was originally caned; the upholstery is 20th century. The back has been re-caned. The chair was repainted in the 20th century. Materials Beech. Cane. Upholstery. Physical Dimensions The physical size of the object H. 94 W. 57 D. 54 Parker Numbers 8188 or 8818 on a paper label Note on paper sheet: ‘New purchase London GH-U’. OM 6039, pattern no. 4388. See Frederick Parker Archive, Box 55, FPA050. Page 134. Provenance Purchased by Frederick Parker & Sons, 20th January 1925 from Chester Street Gallery for £5. Notes Sharon Goodman, ‘Modesty Prevails: Mayhew & Ince’s Commission for Sir Thomas Edwardes at 17 Edwards Street, Marylebone’, Furniture History, 2016, pp. 111-122. <a href="https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-5975492">Four chairs from the Edwardes suite were sold by Christies, London, 9 March 2016, lot 74; </a> <a href="https://bifmo.history.ac.uk/entry/mayhew-john-and-ince-william-1736-1811">Mayhew, John and Ince, William (1758-1811) | BIFMO</a> Hugh Roberts, ‘The Derby House Commode’, The Burlington Magazine, May 1985, pp. 275-283. For the Wimpole Hall chairs see: <a href="https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/882801">Open armchair 882801| National Trust collections</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context FPF204 Title A name given to the resource Painted beech side chair with caned back and upholstered seat. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1780-1800 Description An account of the resource Painted beech side chair with caned back and upholstered seat. https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/189c6e1032b3ec4fe4fd0212aa987fd1.jpg 2e8a8f354da1c6c212d0503743c0b938 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/e31fdf216159f8ec728f27019030b452.jpg 4cc2dc52e4c812f6016753686a5e79be https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/801011c1ee9e51ced04b6280f43975c0.jpg 662f5bb5b3fb2aded330e68b9b1c6ff0 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/65a3222591274e6a4a07d61fd2ddc00a.jpg a5886607a1fb72643eb173a14e031a94 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/a867ba67af80e8822484427b9128b5ac.jpg c051620bf2e99b1994457bb01cb778bb Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Moving Image, Still Image, Text or one of the other types. Full Description The frame of this beech side chair is turned and painted yellow to simulate bamboo. The back has posts continuous with the back legs, with turned tops, and four horizontal rails, the top two spaced apart and joined by seven turned vertical spindles. The rush seat, probably original, is woven around the seat rails, which have exposed corner blocks, and the edges are protected with slips of beech. The chair is raised on tapering and turned legs joined by turned double stretchers, the front stretchers simulating bamboo and the others plain. Simulated, or faux bamboo in furniture became fashionable in the late 18th century as part of a revived interest in Chinese decorative arts. In Thomas Sheraton’s The Cabinet Dictionary (1803), ‘bambo’ or ‘bamboo’ was described as: ‘a kind of Indian reed, which in the East is used for chairs. They are in some degree imitated in England by turning beech into the same form, and making chairs of this fashion, painting them to match the colour of the reeds and cane’. A set of painted bamboo chairs supplied in the 1780s or 1790s as part of a bedroom suite for David Garrick’s villa at Hampton, Middlesex are now in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, W.25-1917. Similarly, ‘36 Bamboo chairs japaned [sic]; the backs and seats caned £71’ were supplied by the Royal furniture-makers, Tatham and Bailey, to the Royal Pavilion, Brighton (Royal Collection, RCIN 655). It is evident that faux bamboo chairs were being made from at least the early 1780s: a painted chair for Mrs Banks of Winstanley illustrated in the Gillow’s Estimate Sketch Book in February 1784, was described in the index as a ‘bamboo’ chair, and on their despatch in March 1784 as: ‘… 8 neat bamboo chairs painted with black ground & yellow flutes & c. also rush bottoms @ 16s’ (Stuart, 2010). In 1797, an American maker, William Challen, advertised: ‘Fancy chair maker from London… makes all sorts of dyed, japanned and bamboo chairs, settees, etc., every article in the fancy chair line executed in the newest and most improved London patterns’ (Jourdain, 1946). Simulated bamboo chairs remained popular into the 1850s, as evidenced by a chair attributed to William Smee & Sons, c. 1840 (Boram, 2010). Condition The chair is in good original condition, with much of the original paintwork. Two slips of beech from the seat rail are missing, and the right hand slip is loose. Some damage to the rush-work. Materials Beech. Rush. Physical Dimensions The physical size of the object H. 84 W. 46 D. 48 Parker Numbers 4097. 3292. 4097 is probably the OM number, 3292 is probably the pattern number. Provenance Not recorded but in the Collection prior to 1993. Notes Thomas Sheraton, The Cabinet Dictionary, 1803. Victoria & Albert Museum, London, W.25-1917. <a href="https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O87515/chair-pratt/">Chair | Pratt | V&A Explore The Collections</a> <a href="https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/2/collection/655/side-chair">Brighton Pavilion chairs: Explore the Royal Collection Online</a> S. Stuart, ‘More about Gillows’ Windsor and Common Chairs’, Regional Furniture, Vol. XXIV, 2010, p. 110, Fig. 23; p. 106, Fig. 19. Jourdain, ‘Bamboo Furniture’, Country Life, 19 July 1946, p. 115. ed. L. Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, London, 1995, Fig. 258. J. Boram, ‘Makers of ‘Dy’d, Fancy and Japan’d Chairs’, Regional Furniture, Vol. XXIV, 2010, p. 57, Fig. 8; pp. 64-65, Figs. 19, 20; p. 71. See also: J. Boram, ‘A Regional Perspective on the Innovative Development of Light Chairs’, Regional Furniture, Vol. XXVI, 2012, pp. 149-176. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context FPF313 Title A name given to the resource Painted beech side chair with rush seat. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1780-1810 Description An account of the resource Painted beech side chair turned to simulate bamboo, with rush seat. https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/378829bee66927e1b091e7b8eb8786a4.jpg d67af2faaa9266330da354dd1020bc34 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/7936b06bab9b64e181ce8fbc64b55ffc.jpg 9735d4767b89005bbdf2d4665eddf331 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/72fde80f35781ee970a6fed3fab0e042.jpg 45963b1dfe100053515a47c11b0228cc https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/4d219fbe93cb12eed12bad2ca9dfc251.jpg 87b9a49b54dbae0aa79e4bb92b86eb57 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/41ff91c472ad76df84cf06914fbe2e61.jpg 8517540788f71c3c91b544e8651c5835 Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Moving Image, Still Image, Text or one of the other types. Full Description This painted side chair has an arched concave crest rail above three shaped and carved splats painted to resemble columns with foliate and husk decoration; they are joined by a shaped, carved and painted rail to simulate swags of drapery. The back posts are continuous with the square-section and flared back legs. The front legs are turned and tapering. The oval stuff-over seat has been re-upholstered in the 20th century and has a floral chintz cover; the upholstery is too deep, giving the chair a rather heavy appearance. The closest designs for this chair found to date are in Hepplewhite’s The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer’s Guide (1794), plates 8 and 6. In this period, Hepplewhite advised: ‘For chairs, a new and very elegant fashion has arisen within these years, of finishing them with painted or japanned work, which gives a rich and splendid appearance to the minuter parts of the ornaments, which are generally thrown in by the painter. Several of these designs are particularly adapted to this style, which allows a frame-work less massy [sic] than is requisite for mahogany; and by afforting [sic., i.e. assorting] the prevailing colour to the furniture and light of the room, affords opportunity, by the variety of grounds which may be introduced, to make the whole accord in harmony, with a pleasing and striking effect to the eye’. Another closely related design by Gillow is illustrated in Gillow Furniture Designs (Boynton, 1998). Condition Apart from the unsuitable re-upholstery, the chair is in good original condition. The painted decoration in ivory, green and black is original, although in poor condition. The joint between the front left leg and the seat rail is loose. Materials Beech. Upholstery. Physical Dimensions The physical size of the object H. 84 W. 53 D. 56 Parker Numbers OM 6208. See Frederick parker Archive, Box 55, Ms. FPA050, page 213. Provenance In stock with Frederick Parker & Sons in July 1929. Notes A Hepplewhite & Co., The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer’s Guide, 1794, plates 8, 6 and p. 2. L. Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs: 1760-1800, Royston, 1995, fig. 282. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context FPF296 Title A name given to the resource Painted beech side chair with upholstered seat. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1790-1800 Description An account of the resource Painted beech side chair with upholstered seat. https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/2d766866afd8af8da626ca7cd4789ad3.jpg 2f0c836313384c3053de392172af99ce https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/8a0fc5768a918847cc4376e6ee3c1cd6.jpg 2353b93cdf426f6c18ac59fdedf044fc https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/6d5bf90954c0cf5a5b740dddbdfb851f.jpg 655063cce896adc480d10ed504dd9700 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/618f856d848fd88b6128bf1b44adc96d.jpg 8472a7046920b221859613837ecd28db https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/17d4e764f54c5cf7fb26d90ce65d10ca.jpg 73776ac9556b0326f0525a0daa4a5611 Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Moving Image, Still Image, Text or one of the other types. Full Description This armchair has an upholstered oval back within a painted and moulded (probably beech) frame with stylised anthemion carving on the crest. The short arms have upholstered pads on the horizontals and terminate in scrolls, meeting down-swept supports which rise from the front legs. The supports are painted with husk pendants. The shaped stuff-over seat has a straight front above a seat rail with painted anthemion. The chair is raised on square-section and tapering front legs with square blocks at the tops, painted with paterae, and terminating in block feet. The legs are painted to simulate fluting. The back legs are square-section and raked. The chair has been entirely re-painted and the upholstery is replaced with a damask cover and braided trimming. This type of chair was popular in Britain from the 1770s, and is typical of the neo-classical style adopted by Thomas Chippendale (1718-79) and John Linnell (1729-96). The form derives from the French interpretation of Grecian style (goût grec) of the 1760s, characterised by severe rectilinear lines and Greek detailing. It remained popular in the 1780s and 1790s with designs featuring in Hepplewhite’s The Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer’s Guide (White, 1990). On painted (or japanned) furniture, Hepplewhite stated: ‘For chairs, a new and very elegant fashion has arisen within these years, of finishing them with painted or japanned work, which gives a rich and splendid appearance to the minuter parts of the ornaments, which are generally thrown in by the painter. Several of these designs are particularly adapted to this style, which allows a frame-work less massy [sic] than is requisite for mahogany; and by afforting [sic., i.e. assorting] the prevailing colour to the furniture and light of the room, affords opportunity, by the variety of grounds which may be introduced, to make the whole accord in harmony, with a pleasing and striking effect to the eye’. Condition Re-painted and re-upholstered in the 20th century. Back right leg is replaced, the other three have been re-tipped. Metal brackets have been used to reinforce the back. Materials Beech. Upholstery. Physical Dimensions The physical size of the object H. 95 W. 61 D. 64 Marks Inscription: ‘D1160-12 MUNCASTER Cumberland’. Parker Numbers 1091 Provenance Not recorded (1993 record missing?) Notes Ed. E. White, Pictorial Dictionary of British 18th Century Furniture Design, Woodbridge, reprinted 2000, p. 105, A. Hepplewhite & Co., The Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer’s Guide (1788, 1789), Plate 12. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context FPF200 Title A name given to the resource Painted beech upholstered armchair with oval back. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1780-1790 Description An account of the resource Painted beech upholstered armchair with oval back. https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/7202d8c705f93fe45e3d3311bf941ad1.jpg 8206eb36c804127549475ca760962167 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/8a4ad1cc50d9382f9fc127c5aaf48797.jpg 93bcbd3176b0b6185388111d3ce749b1 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/f9e3091cbc866835d8da716901d8d01f.jpg 162fc96682ed43fd0bb26e2ff1fd4726 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/689b2fd61c3c043841e8fbd8b8ae01ca.jpg 7023b650102a427ffba6e1cdb357412e https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/294253220971efe71d8d1871d46103a7.jpg 4977eec6b7c08ef97e3f417862a928f3 Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Moving Image, Still Image, Text or one of the other types. Full Description This black-painted and partially gilded mahogany open armchair is in the neo-classical fashion of the late 18th century. The square upholstered back panel is set within a channel-moulded frame and there is a central tablet in the crest rail with a moulded composition decoration which is now partly missing. Down-swept arms with padded armrests terminate in fluted baluster arm supports. The deep upholstered drop-on seat cushion rests on a channel-moulded bow-front seat rail with a central plain tablet. The chair is supported on tapering fluted columnar front legs with leaf carving at the top and with square-section tapering and flared back legs. The black paint is a later finish; traces of the original finish of ivory paint and parcel-gilt survive, and some of the gilding may be original. This armchair is in the Louis XVI-style of the 1780s, made fashionable by French Royal makers such as Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené (1748-1803) and Georges Jacob (1739-1814); for example, see a fauteuil à la Reine (Queen’s chair) by Sené, delivered in 1788 to the Grand Cabinet of Marie Antoinette at the Château de St. Cloud (Kjellberg, 2002). The style was introduced to English makers particularly through George Hepplewhite’s Guide, published in 1788, 1789 and 1794. In this chair the proportions differ from French models in that the legs are longer and the seat cushion thinner, while French chairs tended to have short legs and deep cushions; this example is also taller in the back and the back meets the rear of the seat. This style of chair was in general intended for a drawing room, a room often identified as a feminine realm. The term derives from the ‘withdrawing’ room, which in the 17th century was an ante-chamber situated between the great chamber and the bedchamber used for intimate socialising, and later meant a room to retire to before or after dining. Condition Part of the composition detail in the crest tablet is missing. Finials missing. Black paint is later but some of the gilding may be original. The upholstery and cover is 20th century. Materials Beech. Upholstery. Physical Dimensions The physical size of the object H. 91 W. 61 D. 61 Parker Numbers 1235. 2761. OM 1235A. See Frederick Parker Archive, Box 55, FPA050, Page 169. Provenance Purchased by Frederick Parker & Sons, 1st December 1911 from Brackett for £6.10.0. Notes P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Francais de XVIIIe Siecle, Paris, 2002, p. 812. See also A. Hepplewhite, The Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer’s Guide, 1788, 1789 and 1794. This chair relates to an upholstered armchair, c. 1785, in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (W.64-1930), see <a href="https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O371970/armchair-unknown/">Armchair | unknown | V&A Explore The Collections</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context FPF206 Title A name given to the resource Painted beech upholstered armchair with square back. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1790-1810 Description An account of the resource Painted and partially gilded beech armchair with square upholstered back panel and drop-on seat. https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/b9b96f900c607c5c46ebce6914ee58be.jpg bb6d046ea3c8945f96be5fc439559a0b https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/c7490b75d22ed290cb8e69d85c28a5b4.jpg 42ab03930bec74f5346709ad9f480888 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/11fdf21bb5df7576cb058db0f9855b6e.jpg 71775b8b869ab73f11e7748c17228057 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/612f56733528525aeefdcf5845721ea1.jpg 4f42d6b46d593aa1d92e47fa4e7ee96d https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/f39faae487065816493ba6b3baeefd24.jpg d25764924a0cdce34aebbd8800e13fa2 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/0db4754d7c828e3dcf870cfe443b070b.jpg 9beab2df6138ff6ca7b5ef76e0fe90e1 Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Moving Image, Still Image, Text or one of the other types. Full Description This painted open armchair has an oval, moulded and upholstered back and down-swept arms with upholstered pads. The back is continuous with the back leg. The seat rail is fluted and the stuff-over seat is shaped and bow-fronted. The chair is raised on square-section panelled legs at the front with ‘toupie’ feet (toupie is French for a spinning top). There are carved paterae within square panels where the legs meet the seat-rail. The back legs are raked, also with ‘toupie’ feet. The flowered damask cover is modern. This chair is typical of the neo-classical style fashionable from the early 1770s. It was a form adopted by Thomas Chippendale (1718-79) and his contemporaries including John Linnell (1729-96), whose designs for related models are in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (E.82-1929; E.99-1929). Sets of chairs after this pattern with square-section legs are at Harewood House, Yorkshire, and in the collection of the Duke of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, Argyll, Scotland (Hayward, Kirkham, 1980). It is interesting to note that Linnell’s models alternated between the arms joining the top of the legs, as in this example, or the seat rail, whereas the latter form was characteristic of Chippendale’s chairs. Painted furniture was popular in this period, and considered particularly appropriate for drawing rooms, bedchambers and dressing rooms. Condition The gilding and paint finish appear to be original. The upholstery is replaced. Materials Beech. Upholstery. Physical Dimensions The physical size of the object H. 93 W. 60 D. 49 Parker Numbers 4476. 5188. Provenance Purchased by Frederick Parker & Sons pre 1911 from Cliffords, Bond Street, for £10.0.0. Notes H. Hayward, P. Kirkham, William and John Linnell: Eighteenth Century London Furniture Makers, London, 1980, vol. II, pp. 46-45, figs. 87-89. This chair is on loan to No 1 Royal Crescent, Bath. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context FPF202 Title A name given to the resource Painted beech upholstered open armchair. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1770-1780 Description An account of the resource Painted beech upholstered open armchair with oval back.