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The design of the frames was a very popular one and was made by a number of <i>menuisiers</i>, as the makers of carved furniture were called.  Some made highly carved versions, but these are simply moulded.  The tapestry covers were made some years earlier, for the kind of larger chairs that were fashionable in the 1750s and 1760s. They were only put on to these frames in the nineteenth century, when such tapestries became highly fashionable amongst antique collectors.  The back panels are woven with <i>Chinoiseries</i>, figures in Chinese-style dress in fanciful settings, while the seats are woven with scenes of animals from La Fontaine's 'Fables'.\r\n\r\nOn loan to Cliffe Castle Museum.","physicalDescription":"Settee with frame of moulded and gilded beechwood, upholstered in Aubusson tapestry, the back with a Chinese woman with three children, the seat with the fable of the Jay adorned with Peacock feathers","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"beech","id":"AAT11948"},{"text":"silk (textile)","id":"AAT243428"},{"text":"wool","id":"AAT243430"}],"techniques":[{"text":"water gilding","id":"AAT53795"},{"text":"upholstering","id":"AAT231992"},{"text":"weaving","id":"AAT53642"},{"text":"carving","id":"AAT53149"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Turned and carved beech, joined by mortise-and-tenon construction, water gilded (more than once), upholstered with stitched edges and covered with Aubusson tapestry of silk and wool (not original to the frames), outlined with brass nailing","categories":[{"text":"Furniture","id":"THES48948"}],"styles":[{"text":"Neo-classicism","id":"x38958"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"FWK","id":"THES48597"},"images":["2010CT4550","2010CT4556","2010CT4555","2010CT4554","2012FE5851","2017JU3056"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"CLFC (LOAN)","id":"THES50113"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Settee","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Paris","id":"x29068"},"association":{"text":"joinery","id":"x36614"},"note":"probably"},{"place":{"text":"Aubusson","id":"x37298"},"association":{"text":"tapestry weaving","id":"x42794"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1780-1800","earliest":"1775-01-01","latest":"1800-12-31"},"association":{"text":"joinery","id":"x36614"},"note":""},{"date":{"text":"ca. 1754-70","earliest":"1749-01-01","latest":"1770-12-31"},"association":{"text":"tapestry weaving","id":"x42794"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by P.W. 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