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The openwork back is composed of a top rail carved with voluted scrolls, and the bottom rail is similarly decorated but with the addition of a rosette in the centre. Two baluster uprights are continous with the back legs. The cane panel is bordered by scrolled slats. The supports of the arms and the front legs are formed of scrolls; the latter are joined to one another by a rail with three flowers between scrolls, and by baluster rails to the back legs. These rails and the back legs are similarly connected in pairs. The chair was re-caned in August 1980 by John Haynes & Sons, furniture restorers.\r\n\r\nThe turned twisting balusters are all original. The top section of the cresting rail and the proper right finial are replacements. The rosettes on the sides of the hand-rests might be later additions, as sytlistically they raise suspicions. The middle stretcher is a replacement.\n\nOn loan to Kensington Palace.","physicalDescription":"Armchair of carved and turned walnut and beech. The panel on the back is filled in with cane. The openwork back is composed of a top rail carved with voluted scrolls, a bottom rail similarly decorated with the addition of a rosette in the centre, two baluster uprights continuous with the back legs, and a cane panel bordered by scrolled slats. The supports of the arms and of the fron legs are formed of scrolls; the latter are joined to one another by a rail with three flowers between scrolls, and by baluster rails to the back legs; these rails and the back legs are similarly connected in pairs.\r\n\r\nAll baluster elements are beech. Beech is easier to turn than walnut, and provides a good ground for staining. All three lower stretchers are also beech, and the chair would have been stained all over.\r\n\r\nThe turned twisting balusters are all original. The top section of the cresting rail and the proper right finial are replacements. The rosettes on the sides of the hand-rests might be later additions, as sytlistically they raise suspicions. The middle stretcher is a replacement.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"x40240"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"John Haynes & Sons","id":"A23804"},"association":{"text":"restorers","id":"AAT25821"},"note":"Re-caned in August 1980 by John Haynes & Sons, furniture restorers."}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"Beech","id":"AAT11948"},{"text":"Walnut","id":"AAT12476"},{"text":"Cane","id":"AAT11864"},{"text":"","id":""},{"text":"","id":""},{"text":"","id":""}],"techniques":[{"text":"Carving","id":"AAT53149"},{"text":"Turning","id":"AAT53158"},{"text":"Caning","id":"AAT53599"},{"text":"","id":""}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Carved and turned walnut and beech; caning.","categories":[{"text":"Furniture","id":"THES48948"},{"text":"Woodwork","id":"THES48877"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"FWK","id":"THES48597"},"images":["2014HC8701"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"HRPKenPal","id":"THES49177"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Armchair","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"England","id":"x28826"},"association":{"text":"Made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1690-1700","earliest":"1690-01-01","latest":"1700-12-31"},"association":{"text":"Made","id":"x28654"},"note":""},{"date":{"text":"August 1980","earliest":"1980-08-01","latest":"1980-08-31"},"association":{"text":"restored","id":"AAT53742"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Henry Wallis Esq.","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"51 3/4","unit":"in","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"23","unit":"in","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"","unit":"in","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"23 1/8","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Given by Henry Wallis Esq., 9 Beauchamp Road, Upper Norwood. 'English, late 17th or early 18th century'\r\nCondition: 'Pieces broken and loose; repaired' (1901); 'the back rail already weakened by worm found broken, and repaired in Art Work Room. 6/6/1936' (RF36/3595)\r\nPreviously on loan to the museum, 11/12/1896-20/5/1901 (RF 107277/1896)\r\nFormerly on loan to Valence House, Dagenham (returned 1963). Currently on loan to Kensington Palace, where it has been since 1973.\n\n<u>Dating</u>\nThe 'broken' scroll motif (with a 'break' and reverse scroll), sometimes called a 'horsebone' form, appeared on chair fore-rails in the late 1670s, and was adopted for both front and back legs, and arm supports by the mid-1680s, and was particularly popular in the 1690s; it continued in use after 1700 on some chairs when more elaborate leg designs were becoming fashionable. Baluster form side stretchers tended to become common around 1700. After 1700 moulded seat frames (lacking here) were a distinctive development. Taken together, the features of this chair suggest a date around 1690-1700.\nSee Adam Bowett, <i>English Furniture 1660-1714</i>, (Woodbridge, 2002), pp.230-73","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Armchair of carved and turned walnut and beech. The panel on the back is filled in with cane. 1690-1700, English, re-caned by John Haynes & Sons in 1980","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["618-1901"],"accessionNumberNum":"618","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1901,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-07-07","recordCreationDate":"2008-11-14","availableToBook":false}}