Production: Unknown
Walnut open armchair with plain shaped splat and needlework seat. The cover is of canvas embroidered with grey and various shades of green wool in cross stitch. A stylised leaf design. The cover is probably later than the chair
Bequeathed by Louis C. G. Clarke.
Depth: 52 cm
Height: 98.5 cm
Width: 69 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
Early 18th Century
George I
Production date:
circa
AD 1715
Cover
composed of
wool
canvas
Frame
composed of
walnut
Accession number: M.8-1961
Primary reference Number: 98178
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Armchair" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/98178 Accessed: 2023-06-09 12:37:36
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|title=Armchair
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-09 12:37:36|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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