IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 77425 accession number: MAR.M.215A-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 27 September 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Carved European walnut chair with some sections made from Virginian red walnut, the yoke, back, uprights, splat and seat rails veneered in European walnut. The front and both side raiLs are in beech and the back rail walnut. The chair has cabriole legs and claw and ball feet, the splat decorated with floral marquetry in various woods, and a drop in seat covered in a pink and cream fabric with a woven Florentine pattern (1984) . The viewer's left side seat rail is inscribed in black ink 'J Fordham London'. One of a set of four, MAR.M.215A-D-1912. object type: Carved walnut chair with drop in seat, cabriole legs, and claw and ball feet, the splat decorated with floral marquetry. title: chair NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before testator LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77425 CATEGORIES ------ category: furniture DATING ------ creation date: 1727 - 1747 creation date earliest: 1727 creation date latest: 1747 culture: 18th Century, second quarter# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Fordham, James DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: in value: 36ΒΌ CITATIONS -------- Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840 Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa10/MAR_M_215_1912.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa10/mid_MAR_M_215_1912.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa10/MAR_M_215_1912.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa10/preview_MAR_M_215_1912.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels