Side chair (one of a set of fourteen)
Thomas Chippendale executed this set of Neoclassical dining chairs for Goldsborough Hall in Yorkshire, which belonged to Daniel Lascelles, younger brother of Chippendale's longtime patron, Edwin Lascelles, 7th Baron Harewood, of nearby Harewood House. The chairs, originally a set of fifteen, represent one of Chippendale's most elegant designs: they have tapering backs with arched top rails, fan-shaped splats with a central patera encircled and flanked by pendent bellflower swags, and square, tapering legs decorated with pendent husks. He produced several sets of these chairs with minor variations, including one for Lansdowne House, London, from which the dining room is now preserved at The Met (32.12). The present set of mahogany chairs has been reupholstered, as it was originally, in red morocco leather.
Artwork Details
- Title: Side chair (one of a set of fourteen)
- Designer: Robert Adam (British, Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1728–1792 London)
- Maker: Supplied by Thomas Chippendale (British, baptised Otley, West Yorkshire 1718–1779 London)
- Date: ca. 1772
- Culture: British
- Medium: Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather
- Dimensions: Overall (each): 38 1/4 × 22 × 22 1/2 in. (97.2 × 55.9 × 57.2 cm)
- Classification: Woodwork-Furniture
- Credit Line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace and The Annenberg Foundation Gifts, Gift of Irwin Untermyer and Fletcher Fund, by exchange, Bruce Dayton Gift, and funds from various donors, 1996
- Object Number: 1996.426.4
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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