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Chair

Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore (Maker)
Myers, George (Maker)
Chair
Image: By permission of Amgueddfa Cymru — Museum Wales
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Hall chair, oak, of sgabello form, plain rectangular seat with shaped vertical front and back boards held together by a stretcher fixed at each end by a tusked tenon joint, the back board set into a long notch at the back of the seat and held in place by two inset pieces of oak joined in the middle by a single sliver; the edges of the seat moulded, the front and back boards and stretcher shaped in Gothic form, the boards each divided into two feet by a pointed Gothic arch, the upper back of quatrefoil form with chamfered edges and inset panel painted with A W N Pugin's coat of arms, gules a martlet sable on a bend or.


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Details


Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 51554

Historical Associations

Associated Person/Body: Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore
Association Type: Provenance
Date: 1835-1840
Place: Ramsgate, Kent

Creation/Production

Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore
Myers, George
Role: Production
Role: Designer
Role: Production
Role: Maker
Place: England
Period: 1835-1840

Acquisition

Purchase - ass. of NACF, 14/11/2002

Measurements

Height (cm): 95.4
Width (cm): 40
Depth (cm): 45
Height (in): 37
Width (in): 15
Depth (in): 17

Techniques

Joined
Forming
Applied Art
Carved (decoration)
Decoration
Applied Art
Painted
Decoration
Applied Art

Material

Oak
Paint

Location

on display
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Tags


  • Applied Art
  • Furniture

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