Name/Title
15th c. French Carved Arm ChairEntry/Object ID
HM-137Description
15th c. French Carved Arm Chair
Wooden armchair with geometric applied carving on edges of legs and back; floral applied design on back and above stretcher, scalloped stretcher, arms undecorated, ball-shaped finials.
(2nd similar chair in early photos, but not on inventories)
"One of two similar chairs acquired by Henry Davis Sleeper (1878-1934) about 1907 and installed in 1908 in Beauport’s Medieval Hall (present-day China Trade Room). Photographed in situ in Beauport in December 1909 and again by Thomas Marr in 1910.
Sold or gifted to JHH Jr in Summer of 1922 when HDS dismantled the Medieval Hall. The other similar chair probably accompanied the transfer to Hammond in 1922; both chairs appear in a photograph of the Great Hall at Hammond Castle, but one has not been located and is not inventoried.
Citations: “ ‘The Most Attractive Small House in New England’ on Gloucester Rocks,” Boston Herald Magazine, 26 December 1909: 25; and Thomas Marr Photograph, Beauport Medieval Hall (Negative No. 17019), Historic New England. [2025 J Hayden]Collection
FurnitureLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Chair, SideNomenclature Primary Object Term
ChairNomenclature Sub-Class
Seating FurnitureNomenclature Class
FurnitureNomenclature Category
Category 02: FurnishingsGeneral Notes
Note Type
1970ca Handwritten Inventory p(22) - Great HallNote Type
2025 P Hayden HCM-Sleeper Objects List
