9/2010-2

Collection

Furniture

Brief description

One of six matching walnut ladder back chairs, with a modern rush drop-in seat. The chair retains fragments of the trade label belonging to Giles Grendey’s workshop and is stamped TC. It lacks its original seat, but the seat rails bear slight indentations that indicate that it was most likely to have been made with a rush seat. Supplied or manufactured by the workshop of Giles Grendey, London, c.1740s.

Object name

chair

Object number

9/2010-2

Production person

Giles Grendey (manufacturer and/or retailer)

Production date

c.1745-1750 (made)

Production place

England (manufactured)

Period

Georgian (1714-1837)

Material

walnut
oak
rush

Technique

joined
tenoned
screwed
printed
stamped
moulded

Physical description

Walnut ladder back chair, the back with an undulating top rail over three conforming but reversed splats. The modern drop-in rushed seat on moulded oak seat rails and moulded square legs joined by stretchers. The top rail and splats are tenoned to the rear posts and the stretchers are tenoned to the legs. The seat rails are pegged into the legs. The surface, which has areas of raised dirt and patination may be largely original.

The front rail has the remains of a paper label pasted to it upside down on the inside face which is protected by a perspex plate secured with two screws. It reads ‘in St. John’s – Square, Clerkenwell, LONDON, [indistinct] of cabinet’. There is VII stamped indistinctly in the rebate of the front rail. The letters 'TC' are stamped on the inside face of the back rail.

This object has been physically numbered with its object number, 9/2010-2.

Dimensions

Height: 94.5cm
Depth: 45.7cm
Width: 54cm
Height: 42.5cm

Website keywords

seating