IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 307504 accession number: M.7A-2021 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 30 November 2021 updated: Tuesday 13 August 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: One of a pair (with M.7B-2021) of upholstered mahogany armchairs with beech frames with ornately carved legs and arm uprights, now with replacement ash seat rails. Originally covered in yellow pure silk damask, the chair was acquired with replacement crimson damask, replaced in 2023 with modern yellow silk damask covering. title: chair NOTES ----- type: history note value: Made for the Hon. Charles Bruce (1682–1747; 3rd Earl of Ailesbury from 1741) for his family seat, Tottenham House, Wiltshire. Thence by descent. Given in 1839 by Charles Brudenell Bruce, 1st Marquess of Ailesbury (1773–1856) to the family’s parish church of St Mary’s, Great Bedwyn, Marlborough. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bought from St Mary's Church, Great Bedwyn, with the Colin Granville Elliot Legacy Fund, 2021 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/307504 CATEGORIES ------ category: chair DATING ------ creation date: 1738 - 1741 creation date earliest: 1738 creation date latest: 1741 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Kent, William EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Black Atlantic: Power | People | Resistance CITATIONS -------- Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance William Kent, Lord Burlington and the furnishing of Tottenham House: a rediscovered pair of armchairs from a suite recorded by Sir William Chambers ---