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When the Museum acquired the chair, with three others and a matching armchair, it was believed to have been made in about 1760. However, it is now thought that the chairs were made at least a hundred years later, partly because they show very little sign of wear. They also replicate every detail of Chippendale's design, whereas an 18th-century maker would often copy a design more freely. The five chairs formerly belonged to the theatre designer and furniture historian Percy Macquoid, and were given to the Museum by his widow in 1925. Macquoid was the author of the first major history of English furniture (published 1904--08), but even he made occasional mistakes.","physicalDescription":"Armchair, carved mahogany. The back has carved uprights and top rail and pierced central splat carved with a symmetrical design of scrollwork. Curved arms, partly fluted; the front of the seat bowed. Cabriole front legs carved with scrollwork at the knees ending in bun feet. The back legs are slightly curved and plain.The seat is covered with needlework, principally gros point, in coloured silks and wools with a design of tulips and carnations.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"Mahogany","id":"AAT12221"}],"techniques":[{"text":"Carved","id":"AAT53149"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Mahogany carved. 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Macquoid, of The Yellow House, 8 Palace Court, Bayswater. She was the widow of Percy Macquoid, the furniture historian and theatre designer. The armchair was gifted along with four identical chairs (W.47: 1 to C-1925).","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Armchair, carved mahogany with cabriole legs on pad feet. English. Drop-in seat covered in gros point needlework.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"The splat is very similar to the right hand design in plate XII of Chippendale, Thomas, <u>The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director</u>, 1st Edition 1754 and 3rd Edition, 1763.\r\nIllustrated in<u> English Chairs, V&amp;A Museum</u> with an introduction by Ralph Edwards, HMSO 1951, plate 70. The entry described the chair as 'Closely similar to a design dated 1753, Chippendale's Director, 1st Edition, 1754, plate XII and probably made by his firm'. There is no evidence for this.\nIllustrated <u>The Dictionary of English Furniture</u> by Percy Macquoid and Ralph Edwards, revised by Ralph Edwards, Volume One, Country Life 1953, Fig. 164."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Charles H. Hayward, <i>Antique or Fake? The Making of Old Furniture. </i> London: Evans Brothers, 1970, illustrated on p. 136."}],"production":"The chair-back is copied from a design in Thomas Chippendale's <i>Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director</i>, 1st edition (1754), plate XIII.","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"Label 9175. 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