Mahogany side chair with round upholstered seat.
Identifier
FPF288
Title
Mahogany side chair with round upholstered seat.
Date
1790-1800
Description
Mahogany side chair with round upholstered seat
Full Description
This mahogany chair has a tapering, concave back with moulded back posts and rails. Three vertical spear-shaped pierced splats with foliate carved triangular tops rise from a moulded lower rail. The compass, or circular, stuff-over seat is covered with a modern yellow brocade. The chair is raised on tapering, turned legs at the front with ‘toupie’ feet (toupie is the French term for a spinning top). The back legs are rounded and raked. There are two elm and two walnut seat rails.
This chair back is almost certainly inspired by designs found in Thomas Sheraton’s The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer’s Drawing Book (1st edition, 1793) (White, 1990).
The front leg turnings together with Dutch-style braces under the seat suggest this chair might be Dutch.
This chair back is almost certainly inspired by designs found in Thomas Sheraton’s The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer’s Drawing Book (1st edition, 1793) (White, 1990).
The front leg turnings together with Dutch-style braces under the seat suggest this chair might be Dutch.
Condition
In good original condition.
Materials
Mahogany.
Elm.
Walnut.
Upholstery.
Elm.
Walnut.
Upholstery.
Physical Dimensions
H. 86
W. 46
D. 53
W. 46
D. 53
Parker Numbers
OM 4158. See Frederick Parker Archive, Box 55, Ms. FPA050, page 99.
Provenance
Purchased by Frederick Parker & Sons on 21st March 1915 from Millar for £7.10.0.
Notes
ed. E. White, Pictorial Dictionary of British 18th Century Furniture Design, Woodbridge, 1990, p. 92, Part II, Plate 24, Fig. 36; p. 93, Part III, Plate XXXIV, right.
