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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 mahogany library armchair frame has a padded concave tablet back with rounded ends, stuffed with horsehair and covered in close-nailed leather, probably Moroccan, i.e. goatskin. The arms are joined to the posts just below the tablet and curve down to form wide flat armrests which would originally have been padded. There are baluster-turned arm supports joined to the beech seat rail, which is circular, and now missing its stuff-over upholstery. The front legs are turned and tapering, with ‘toupie’ feet (toupie is French for a spinning top), and the back legs are square-section and flared. The chair possibly had a swivel underarm fixture for either a candle or book rest, as indicated by a filled peg hole in the underside of the right arm. Library chairs are rare survivors today, since they must always have been somewhat unusual and would have had a limited market. There is an example in the Victoria & Albert Museum of a type of reading chair where the sitter faces what would normally be the back of the chair, made c. 1730 and believed to have been owned by the poet John Gay (V&A: W.47:1-1948). Thomas Sheraton illustrates such a chair in The Cabinet Directory (1803), plate 5, and states that the chair was intended: ‘to make the exercise [of reading] easy, and for the convenience of taking down a note or quotation from any subject’. This chair (FPF297) is a more conventional form of armchair, but the enlarged and padded arms would have given more support when holding a book or newspaper. For an example of a writing chair in the Frederick Parker Collection, see FPF149. Condition Left front leg has been replaced at the top. Repair to the crest rail. Tack holes on the arms indicate position of upholstery, now missing. The seat upholstery would have been stuff-over as indicated by tack holes. Materials Mahogany. Beech. Upholstery. Physical Dimensions The physical size of the object H. 91 W. 66 D. 61 Parker Numbers Plastic label ‘PATTERN OM 1357’. Provenance In stock prior to 1911, purchased by Frederick Parker & Sons from Gill & Reigate for £2. Notes For the library reading chair at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, see: <a href="https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O55040/reading-chair/">Reading Chair | V&A Explore The Collections</a> https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O55040/reading-chair/ R. Edwards, Sheraton Furniture Designs, London, 1945, pp. 44-45. Noted in Parker record: Returned to HW for Parkertex in April 1986. 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 FPF297 Title A name given to the resource Mahogany library armchair. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1795-1810 Description An account of the resource Mahogany library armchair with wide flat arm rests. https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/2e44f207ecc5288fd7d4485ae0aa63ff.jpg 01c3d334afbc0f95f9c25ef6d47a920d https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/73f5b85f111ff8c2f3bef2e2f891d7ed.jpg 557c76dbf394436fd69222a5b13f907d https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/c31b645a933417b49ebc80a88a69f5ef.jpg 206eaf7cafd29d7dbe57d4e57370b62c https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/13ae37a7ba5fbd72596a74463c086069.jpg 745753abd6efbee091ecdd5b38b942f4 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/cc97318ea47205fc7e7b4df1325953ae.jpg 4d412a00fc635d7fea2b3cb32ffb5441 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/b2519b947b9ff404e9d4526f5f12d110.jpg a67de135b6227ae4c1ed45702922e6c5 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 frame has a tall sloping back with a serpentine crest rail. The back posts are continuous with the back legs. The arms are curved and terminate in scrolls, with down-swept supports meeting the side rails. The tapered seat is raised on moulded front legs with brackets, and flared back legs, joined by an ‘H’-form stretcher. This chair frame was made by Parker Knoll as the prototype for the PK314 range. This type of open-sided armchair with upholstered back and seat was sometimes described in the early-mid 20th century as a ‘Gainsborough Chair’. Thomas Chippendale (1718-79) referred to the model as a ‘French’ chair in the third edition of his Director (1762), and this term was in use during the 19th century. This design is comparable to that used by Edward VIII for a speech broadcast to the nation in 1935, which was model number PK115 (Bland, 1995). Condition Frame only. Materials Mahogany. Physical Dimensions The physical size of the object H. 91 W. 60 D. 51 Marks Marked on outside of front seat rail: 'PK314'. Printed wooden plates on the inside of left and right seat rails: 'Registered trademark Parker-Knoll High Wycombe England' Parker Numbers PK314. Provenance Purchased for the Collection, 16 June 2016. Notes Thomas Chippendale, The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director, 3rd Edition, London, 1762. Stephen Bland, Take a Seat, The Story of Parker Knoll 1834-1994, Parker Knoll, 1935, p. 84 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 FPF494 Title A name given to the resource Mahogany open armchair frame. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930-1940 Description An account of the resource Mahogany open armchair frame made by Parker Knoll. https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/cdb0b5ddfbe6ddd08683624388b51a2e.jpg 943a7874cc4537d079457445c58521dc https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/22e5c3b06630da75230d0375e63cc988.jpg 81d948cf0bca5a120d4f084fb25e3b8c https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/3bf571859d9300d52e3828c847cb3823.jpg d437e2867a5701e5131898d663f20560 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/4984ffe87eb68e14b0c49b669297f68c.jpg abfce704c1a02665249f5b88ed1c2526 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/8e9b8a90ad24b1f671ff3c111d02e697.jpg b2ad18e71f1adec029f83758c8fe24d9 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/42c531cc8435cab14cbba5199381b85c.jpg d31b2c136ed240fcb5eb012b7b461212 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/15865378eed153c7328f4124a7baea06.jpg 6a8cfb7f176d46054efc78886238b509 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 fluted mahogany frame, with the crest carved with a rosette, husk festoons and acanthus leaves. The back frame is continuous with the back legs. The stuff-over seat has a serpentine-front and is curved at the sides and back. The short down-swept moulded arms have pads on the horizontals and meet down-swept moulded supports rising from the front legs. The seat rail is fluted and the front rail is carved with a central rosette and husks. The chair is raised on moulded cabriole legs at the front with carved festoons on the knees, while the back legs are moulded and flared. The yellow damask and webbing upholstery is 20th century. This chair is in the Louis XV-style, made fashionable in the mid-1760s by French Royal chair-makers such as Jean-Baptiste Tilliard (1686-1766), maître in 1717, and menuisier du Garde-Meuble du Roi from 1728. The oval back in chairs is one of the earliest embodiments of the neo-classical style. The first known representation of an oval-back chair is in Pierre-Antoine Baudouin's engraving, Le Lever, published in 1765. Tilliard, together with his contemporary Louis Delanois, was pre-eminent in the use of oval backs in the early 1760s, confirmed by a miniature chair by Tilliard which was acquired by the 6th Earl of Coventry from the marchand-mercier Simon-Phillippe Poirier between 1763-68 (Jervis, 2011). This chair is an English rendition of the French prototype. Although British furniture makers like John Linnell (1729-96) favoured combining an oval back with straight legs, designs in the Victoria & Albert Museum show that Linnell was initially making oval back chairs with cabriole legs in c. 1770-75 (Hayward, Kirkham, 1980). Condition Feet cut down. Repair to top of right arm, and underside of right arm, two wood plugs. Damage to carving on front left seat rail. Repairs to chair back New supporting brackets under seat rail. Materials Mahogany. Upholstery. Physical Dimensions The physical size of the object H. 94 W. 61 D. 64 Marks Underside, right arm, incised ‘VIII’. Underside, seat rail, incised ‘XIIII’. Parker Numbers Painted under seat rail: ‘177/3691’. Plastic label inside seat rail: ‘OM 3691’. Provenance Purchased by Frederick Parker & Sons prior to 1914 from Charles for £26.10.0. Notes <a href="https://www.furniturehistorysociety.org/uploaded_resources/files/NL_184amended.pdf">Simon Swynfen Jervis, ‘Miniature Furniture and Interiors’, Furniture History Society Newsletter, November 2011, p. 4. </a> H. Hayward, P. Kirkham, William and John Linnell: Eighteenth Century London Furniture Makers, London, 1980, vol. II, pp. 44-45, figs. 86, 86a. 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 FPF177 Title A name given to the resource Mahogany open armchair with oval back and cabriole legs. 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 Mahogany open armchair with oval back and cabriole legs, the seat and back upholstered. https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/5af3b2a0b4ddc165892afcb6208f3efd.jpg 7bbe3fa976c89b6d00a11fc188379968 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/6261c869d54209e6a27602f73363bd6b.jpg 6046140522cd7ed9b1e8ff57495f4a15 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/bbeaba11d39b45c8074db0540ed8aa79.jpg d950c195819d74e832abbd9b4b69ac42 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/dc6b3c237641aa1c1685c5ba57a35656.jpg 6c6e44f6d41555b20fe0b4b92e901f90 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/b16b83a8760584ac6b3d900bc22749f0.jpg a43c229b64dfca5dc1b121212b6c5b59 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 mahogany-frame armchair has a cartouche-shaped upholstered back. The out-scrolled arm rests are part-upholstered and meet fluted mahogany down-swept supports fixed to the seat rail. The stuff-over seat has a serpentine front and a deep apron. The chair is raised on cabriole legs at the front and raked square-section flared legs at the back that terminate in toe feet. The chair is covered in a modern pink satin damask. The pattern for this chair can be compared to two designs by the cabinet- and chair-maker John Linnell (1729-96), now held in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (E.59-1929; E.85-1929). Inspired by ‘French elbow chairs’, Linnell’s interpretation of the rococo style can be seen in the curved arm rails, the S-shaped curves at the front of the seat and the cabriole front legs. This chair would most likely have been part of a suite of chairs and perhaps sofas to furnish a drawing room, used by family as well as guests. This was the room to which people would retire after a meal, usually the women leaving first while the men remained for a while in the dining room with port and cigars. Drawing room chairs were designed to be elegant, comfortable and convenient. A set of eight chairs made to the first of Linnell’s designs discussed above (together with two sofas en suite) was supplied to William Drake at Shardeloes, Buckinghamshire, in 1768 (Hayward, Kirkham, 1980). Condition Metal brackets reinforcing three legs. Left front leg corner bracket missing, right front leg both corner brackets missing. Repairs to both back legs and left front leg. Materials Mahogany. Upholstery. Physical Dimensions The physical size of the object H. 94 W. 66 D. 61 Parker Numbers 500 Provenance In the Collection prior to 1993. Notes H. Hayward, P. Kirkham, William and John Linnell: Eighteenth Century London Furniture Makers, London, 1980, vol. II, p. 34, fig. 61. <a href="https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O754709/design-for-an-armchair-from-drawing-linnell-john/">Design For An Armchair From A Miscellaneous Collection of Original Designs | John Linnell | V&A Explore The Collections</a> <a href="https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O754683/designs-for-two-armchairs-from-drawing-linnell-john/">Design For Two Armchairs From A Miscellaneous Collection of Original Designs | John Linnell | V&A Explore The Collections</a> 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 FPF193 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1765-1785 Description An account of the resource Mahogany open armchair with upholstered seat and back and cabriole legs. Title A name given to the resource Mahogany open armchair with upholstered seat and back. https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/5297364c6413ad8e6a2f44f5b70fe4d3.jpg 281fa8caee8a357ae2b877a23b81e4a7 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/0bc9f7d4fdcc3838439f01a3388e72e5.jpg 79804f784938953397b227379a1496a3 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/29eafb36e80653ea152c7933cbf1e9a2.jpg c93ed1f1d3f04859942a10801b1670ba https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/6017003c418097f5557062de002b9cd7.jpg f10aa00d63820ff3414b1a8e58a633d1 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/8354bcd9f0c1f91164e70df686dd06ac.jpg 8d885df6055274dbb47ae33c66412753 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 mahogany open armchair has a continuous arched and curved back and arms, the shaped back posts rising from the legs, which are turned below seat level. The back has five splayed spindles turned with nodes, regularly spaced rather than resembling bamboo. The arms meet down-swept moulded supports rising from the front legs. The tapering and curved seat has stuff-over upholstery and a close-nailed horsehair cover. The front legs are tapering, turned and carved with a band of fluting at their tops. The back legs are turned and raked. The legs are united by diagonal turned cross stretchers that have been reinforced at the joints with later metal brackets. The upholstery and cover are 19th century. The pattern for this chair is somewhat similar to Hepplewhite’s 1788 design for a ‘Bar-back sofa’, having a continuous open-frame back and arms with splayed bars and an upholstered seat (White, 1990). A similar chair was sold through Christie’s, London in 2013, described as being possibly made by a French emigré chairmaker. The mahogany seat rail is partly exposed on the Christie’s example, and is fluted, and it seems likely that this chair (FPF168) was originally made and upholstered in this way, before extensive alterations were carried out in the 19th century when the seat rails were replaced and the chair was re-upholstered. Condition Surface has been stripped. Seat rails are replaced and the chair re-upholstered. Rear left back leg and lower part of rear right back leg are replaced. Lower part of front right leg replaced. Metal brackets supporting the stretchers. Materials Mahogany. The rear and two side seat rails are ash, the front seat rail is oak. Upholstery. Physical Dimensions The physical size of the object H. 89 W. 58 D. 56 Parker Numbers OM 5919, plastic label on the back left of the seat rail. Provenance Purchased by Frederick Parker & Sons on 18 June 1919 for £18.0.0. Notes E. White (ed.), Pictorial Dictionary of British 18th Century Furniture Design, Antique Collectors’ Club, 1990, p.114, A. Hepplewhite & Co., The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1st Edition, 1788, top left. <a href="https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-5675073">Christies, London, 2 May 2013, lot 221</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 FPF168 Title A name given to the resource Mahogany open armchair with upholstered seat and spindles in the back. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1770-1790 Description An account of the resource Mahogany open armchair with upholstered seat and spindles in the back. https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/6ff68b6a8629349faa41d28ee480fe53.jpg 9b83477895412b671b6824c8ff694963 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/dea8160d26e6c402d34e164c4d2c9df0.jpg 1b049e858dda9b79cf0bc9b6be89a8ce https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/05206ba209c0a04be61dcc22b5f73b82.jpg 2197dcf7d789e2f83d17c57a3dc6bb8c https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/13e878d8d8cb31d34ffc4a791a9b3fdc.jpg 80d5c353236b72cae70de083c6afcb1d https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/ed391bf83f09a0cffd12e918ecf9c571.jpg e8351ffbec6e835dcf797ac7618c94fd 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 mahogany side chair has a gadroon-carved crest rail with a raised scrolled tablet in the centre. The back has a square splat with diagonally crossed bars set between horizontal rails; the diagonals are terminated in each corner and at the centre with carved lotus-flowers. A narrow panel of canework surrounds the splat. The tapering back posts are continuous with tapering and square-section flared back legs. The seat rails are plain and support a caned seat which probably had a squab cushion, now missing. The front legs are squared and carved at the tops and ring-turned and reeded below, terminating in ‘toupie’ feet (toupie is the French term for a spinning top). This chair with its crossed bars is related to French Empire-style seat-furniture with artistic references to Ancient Rome and Egypt. Chairs with similar crossed splats are featured in plate 10 in The London Chair-Makers’ and Carvers’ Book of Prices for Workmanship, 1807-11 (see Gilbert, 1982). Most of the designs for the plainer seat-furniture were from the close of the 18th century, and not in the latest fashion (Fastnedge, 1965). Condition All four legs have been re-tipped. The caning in the seat is not original; it has been wrapped over an added rail at the back of the seat indicating this is a later repair. The left seat rail has been repaired. Caning in the back is probably original, although damaged. Materials Mahogany. Cane. Physical Dimensions The physical size of the object H. 86 W. 51 D. 56 Parker Numbers OM 6272. See Frederick Parker Archive, Box 55, Ms. FPA050, page 227. Provenance Purchased by Frederick Parker & Sons on 27th October 1930 for £3.11.6. Notes C. Gilbert, ‘Part II, London and Provincial Books of Prices: Comment and Bibliography’, Furniture History, 1982, vol. 18, pp. 11-21. R. Fastnedge, ‘A Manual for Georgian Chair-Makers’, Country Life, 10 June 1965, pp. 1440-1443. 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 FPF307 Title A name given to the resource Mahogany side chair with a crossed splat and caned seat. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1800-1820 Description An account of the resource Mahogany side chair with a crossed splat, part caned, and with a caned seat. https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/7336613c75fce5b051d56b2912c9eb8c.jpg ff23df9749c911ced9ac60188b37c768 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/8a1186ca9145405a6d9e5b83c8c5c450.jpg 2bbdaecd8ad6f2674e43a6555e2ad6a4 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/3435a8097bf0c2d035ecf3a98d14e63e.jpg 5a69b4e2c81546c8d682e534b98d35f6 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/427583311f4220a4024af141ce7e8048.jpg ae3ed9b953472e7f17ae247abb049326 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/7955ee84b9f8e58020fb3532345091db.jpg d6c325028f1e094832225478d884336a https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/4a3bef900145066fae1aed94860c9bc9.jpg 669fca53161f50396f1b03363d421ceb 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 19th century chair was made, probably as a fake, in the French rococo style of the mid-18th century. The serpentine crest rail in the back is from an 18th century chair, c.1760, and the rest has been skilfully designed and made to blend with it to give the appearance of a chair of the type published by Chippendale in 1762. The central splat is baluster shaped, pierced and delicately carved with scrolls and acanthus leaves in the rococo manner to suit the period top rail. The moulded back posts are splayed and tapered towards the top. The stuff-over seat is waisted at the sides and serpentine at the front. The seat rails have shaped aprons at the front and sides, framed with scrolling which runs into the front cabriole legs, terminating in scrolled feet. The front seat rail has a carved cartouche in the centre, which echoes that in the crest. There is evidence that the chair originally had H-stretchers, which would not have been likely on an 18th century chair in this style. The upholstery materials are early 20th century, covered in a damask with braid trimming. Judging by the purchase price, Frederick Parker must have believed it to be an 18th century chair. It was quite common practice in the antiques and restoration trades in the 19th and early 20th centuries to make up sets of chairs using some original parts to provide at least a degree of authenticity and allow them to be sold as antiques. If the intention was to deceive, as was often the case, they were in fact fakes. Condition The only 18th century element is the top rail. The feet have been cut down. The upholstery and cover are early 20th century. Materials Mahogany. Upholstery. Physical Dimensions The physical size of the object H. 94 W. 61 D. 61 Parker Numbers 1974. 2288. 3178. Provenance Purchased by Frederick Parker from C. Grant in December 1912, for £24.10.0 Notes For comparable designs see Thomas Chippendale, The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director, London, 1762, Plate XI. 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 FPF117 Title A name given to the resource Mahogany side chair with carved and pierced splat and upholstered seat. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1840-1860 with crest rail c.1760 Description An account of the resource A mahogany side chair with carved and pierced splat, upholstered seat and cabriole legs. https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/6b1909e9acfe04f927798feefd51dc35.jpg f5d822c47bb5aa7cbde689c2296b075f https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/3f2e36abb21146b2701bbdcaac06d700.jpg 7c385fad83c5569b005dda9594342baa https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/23945952ea79a4f2e593350ae01e369f.jpg 223f81f3c40289e01a148544b1f51fc6 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/b1a2a606d763241d293067d0d4a0d839.jpg 0e75d071ef8b1acc0da07ba617e5348c https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/d215bff37b8f0dd7ef80a731a50308ee.jpg 79f85c9fb52d3f7708189a176b610253 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 mahogany side chair has a serpentine crest rail with pointed scroll ends above a pierced vase-shaped splat carved with double ‘C’ scrolls, cabochon and acanthus leaves. The splat is flanked by slightly flared, tapering back posts. A stuff-over seat with tapered sides is covered in close-nailed red leather; the chair was reupholstered in 1985, although the horsehair may have been reused. The chair is raised on square-section chamfered legs with pierced brackets; the back legs are slightly flared. The chair is based on a design published in the 1st edition of Thomas Chippendale’s The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director (1754), plate XII, and subsequently as plates XIII and XIV in the 3rd edition (1762). It is the only chair back design which appears in all three editions of the Director, suggesting it was a popular model. In the 1762 text, Chippendale states: ‘The front Feet are mostly different, for the greater Choice… The Seats look best when stuffed over the Rails, and have a Brass Border neatly chased; but are most commonly done with Brass Nails, in one or two Rows’. A set of six chairs corresponding to this design was possibly supplied by Chippendale to Nostell Priory, Yorkshire in c.1765 (Gilbert, 1978). Condition The chair was restored and re-upholstered in 1985; it was finished with varnish which obscures much of the detail and makes judgments on authenticity difficult. The shoe is loose. Front and side seat rails are replaced and the rear rail is strengthened. Brackets at front legs are later. Four spliced feet. Materials Mahogany. Upholstery. Physical Dimensions The physical size of the object H. 97 W. 61 D. 61 Parker Numbers Plastic label: ‘PATTERN’ OM 2384. See Frederick Parker Archive, Box 55, FPA050. Page 181. Provenance Purchased by Frederick Parker & Sons in March 1913 from Kennedy’s for £8.0.0. Notes Thomas Chippendale, The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director, 1st edition, 1754, plate XII; 3rd edition, 1762, plates XIII and XIV and p.3. C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, Vol. 1, p. 174; Vol. 2, p. 83, fig. 131. 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 FPF158 Title A name given to the resource Mahogany side chair with carved and pierced splat. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1760-1770 Description An account of the resource Mahogany side chair with pierced splat and upholstered seat. https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/2e262bddfa882894483ca84ab42e1b22.jpg 4b538ffcf2f379eac72e78922a8bd8ef https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/3cdb11879f948c657ce519b10048e410.jpg b414d75f43cccd306625879731d0f95d https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/9155446904debd22123406bb0b84cfb6.jpg 3195c931b96fa2399b3268871e48175e https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/beea2a1903d3816563f4490465f4bcea.jpg ab5224c5828162f9db5a5afdb0b8915e https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/6f41c7885d8cf16d24a1da8d0b9838d0.jpg dd7341d7d476cd1fbafeec5de2a8b4ac https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/19ef8994cbadea6b2b553d578ec53eee.jpg faf9c479371c0a5a50931eae44acde28 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 mahogany side chair has an undulating crest rail with a central carved spray of flowers. It joins wave-moulded back posts with acanthus carving. The pierced splat has carved interlaced ribbons, flower carving and ‘gothick’ trefoil ends. This joins a ‘shoe’ on the rear seat rail, above a tapered upholstered drop-in seat, covered in a modern green material. The webbing and hessian appear to be 19th century. A fragment of horsehair at the back of the seat implies a previous or original covering. The chair is raised on slightly tapering and chamfered legs that are joined by H-stretchers with a higher back stretcher. The back legs are flared. This chair is possibly inspired by designs for Gothic-style furniture published by Thomas Chippendale (1718-79) in the Director (1754-1762). Although it does not relate exactly to any one design, it includes elements from a chair-back in Plate XXI (left) of the 1754 edition. Comparable chairs with similar backs include: a side chair in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (W.73-1937); a chair at Creech Grange, Dorset (Country Life, 1931); a pair of chairs with a related top rail profile formerly with Christopher Buck Antiques (no. 277415); and chairs in Cescinsky, 1909-11. This chair is possibly by a regional maker, suggested by its small scale, the thinness of construction, unusual flower carving and the lack of certainty in the drawing of the back posts and front legs. Condition Repair to the top of the crest rail. The seat frame is broken. All legs are tipped. Old repair to right hand back leg. The chair has a good early finish. Materials Mahogany. Upholstery. Physical Dimensions The physical size of the object H. 99 W. 56 D. 56 Parker Numbers 3004 Provenance In the Collection prior to 1993. Notes Thomas Chippendale, The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director, 1754, Plate XXI (left). <a href="https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O372193/chair-unknown/">Chair | Unknown | V&A Explore The Collections</a> ‘Furniture at Creech Grange’, Country Life, 12 September 1931, p. 283, fig. 3. H. Cescinsky, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, London, 1909-11, vol. II, p. 233, figs. 241-242; p. 234, fig. 243. 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 FPF153 Title A name given to the resource Mahogany side chair with drop-in seat. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1765-75 Description An account of the resource Mahogany side chair with pierced gothic splat and drop-in seat. https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/c0066c0ba09550e17a911b0e8a3ab308.jpg 33e92e5cd1781360710cb4abe22ae50b https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/775fa0b9d79f70b033fd5de48261ce3e.jpg 63177a29e0a0aae10bb7f5e67eaaf351 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/b1c208a2b72ed9bc858c92f6f2f9b8dd.jpg 1f3c6cecc017ed9087ff3f133ce47347 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/3735bc490642b25df31824df4f874329.jpg 941b3c4540362de105419d18e8e32fd2 https://www.frederickparkercollection.org.uk/files/original/4cc1328dedf58e58330321f35386d212.jpg c15afc22e6894b180299764259bc15ad 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 mahogany side chair has an undulating crest rail with acanthus carving on the rounded corners and waisted and moulded back posts. The pierced fan-shaped splat is carved with Prince of Wales feathers above a foliate pendant. Five vertical struts have a carved cross rail at the mid-point. The splat joins a ‘shoe’ on the rear seat rail. The rails are square section and the drop-in upholstered seat is tapered. The legs are square-section and moulded and joined by an ‘H-form’ cross stretcher, with a higher stretcher between the flared back legs. The upholstery and cover are early 20th century. This is a 19th century copy of fan-back chairs dating from the mid-1770s to the 1780s. It can be related to a chair by Gillows described as ‘Fan back chair with arched top rail and plain square legs (67/66)’ (Boynton, 1995). A large set of fan-back chairs was made by Gillows for William Hassell of Penrith in 1774, now at Dalemain, Cumbria (Stuart, 2008). Condition The drop-in seat upholstery and cover are 20th century. Materials Mahogany. Upholstery. Physical Dimensions The physical size of the object H. 94 W. 56 D. 53 Marks Stamped 226. Provenance In the Frederick Parker Collection prior to 1993. Notes ed. L. Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Royston, 1995, no. 251. S. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, 2008, Woodbridge, Vol. I, pp. 151-153, Plates 97, 100-101. 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 FPF375A Title A name given to the resource Mahogany side chair with fan-shaped splat and drop-in upholstered seat. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1870-1890 Description An account of the resource Mahogany side chair with fan-shaped splat and drop-in upholstered seat.