Upholstered mahogany side chair.
Identifier
FPF114
Title
Upholstered mahogany side chair.
Date
1760-1770
Description
Upholstered mahogany side chair with cabriole legs.
Full Description
This upholstered mahogany side chair has a rectangular back with a serpentine top and squared corners, and a tapered stuff-over seat with a serpentine front echoing the crest rail. The seat rails are beech. The chair is raised on cabriole front legs with carved scroll brackets that terminate in scroll feet; the legs are hipped, i.e., the tops extend over the seat rail. The back legs are also cabriole, and with scroll feet. The upholstery is 20th century and the cover is Genoa-type figured velvet.
This type of chair was included in Ince and Mayhews’s The Universal System of Household Furniture, 1762. It is also found in Thomas Chippendale’s Director (3rd edition, 1762) as an armchair, described as a ‘French Chair’. Such chairs were evidently fashionable in this period; other contemporary designs are found in Robert Manwaring’s The Cabinet and Chair-Maker’s Real Friend and Companion, 1765, and in Genteel Household Furniture in the Present Taste, published by A Society of Upholsterers, 2nd edition, 1765 (White, 1990).
This type of chair was included in Ince and Mayhews’s The Universal System of Household Furniture, 1762. It is also found in Thomas Chippendale’s Director (3rd edition, 1762) as an armchair, described as a ‘French Chair’. Such chairs were evidently fashionable in this period; other contemporary designs are found in Robert Manwaring’s The Cabinet and Chair-Maker’s Real Friend and Companion, 1765, and in Genteel Household Furniture in the Present Taste, published by A Society of Upholsterers, 2nd edition, 1765 (White, 1990).
Condition
The front right leg has been replaced.
Scroll bracket to front right hand leg is missing.
Scroll bracket to front right hand leg is missing.
Materials
Mahogany.
Beech.
Upholstery.
Beech.
Upholstery.
Physical Dimensions
H. 99
W. 64
D. 69
W. 64
D. 69
Parker Numbers
Painted on the rear seat rail, 114/2008.
OM 511, pattern no. 2008. See Frederick Parker Archive, Box 55, FPA050. Page 177.
Plastic label under seat rail: ‘Pattern 128’.
Painted inside seat rail: ‘54/1343’.
Paper label tied to chair, printed; ‘Parker-Knoll Collection 1954 valuation’, typed ‘54/1343’, with description of chair.
OM 511, pattern no. 2008. See Frederick Parker Archive, Box 55, FPA050. Page 177.
Plastic label under seat rail: ‘Pattern 128’.
Painted inside seat rail: ‘54/1343’.
Paper label tied to chair, printed; ‘Parker-Knoll Collection 1954 valuation’, typed ‘54/1343’, with description of chair.
Provenance
Purchased by Frederick Parker & Sons pre-1914 when valued at 7s 6d.
Notes
William Ince and John Mayhew, The Universal System of Household Furniture, 1762, plates LV and LVI.
Thomas Chippendale, The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director, 3rd edition, 1762, plate XIX.
ed. Elizabeth White, Pictorial Dictionary of British 18th Century Furniture Design, Antique Collectors' Club, 1990, p. 104, Plates 22-23; p. 102, Plate 28.
For similar chairs see also: C. Claxton Stevens, S. Whittington, Eighteenth Century English Furniture, Antique Collectors' Club, 1983, p. 43.
Thomas Chippendale, The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director, 3rd edition, 1762, plate XIX.
ed. Elizabeth White, Pictorial Dictionary of British 18th Century Furniture Design, Antique Collectors' Club, 1990, p. 104, Plates 22-23; p. 102, Plate 28.
For similar chairs see also: C. Claxton Stevens, S. Whittington, Eighteenth Century English Furniture, Antique Collectors' Club, 1983, p. 43.
