ca 1640 English Chair with High Paneled Back

Furniture

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Hammond Castle Museum

Name/Title

ca 1640 English Chair with High Paneled Back

Entry/Object ID

HM-44

Tags

Beauport

Description

4-legged Jacobean wainscot chair with broad flat arms and crowned paneled back. Characteristic banister turned arm supports and legs in a period vase-shaped form. Four lower stretchers at feet. English circa 1640 "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 by Thomas Marr in 1910. Sold or gifted to JHH Jr in Summer of 1922 when HDS dismantled the Medieval Hall. Citations: Thomas Marr Photograph, Beauport Medieval Hall (Negative No. 17018), Historic New England. [2025 P Hayden}"

Collection

Furniture

Acquisition

Accession

44

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1640

Place

Location

English

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Chair

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Seating Furniture

Nomenclature Class

Furniture

Nomenclature Category

Category 02: Furnishings

General Notes

Note Type

1966 Corinne Witham Guidebook (12)

Note Type

2014-06-25 Christie's p(91) - upholstered side chair & oak open arm chair

Note Type

2025 P Hayden HCM-Sleeper Objects List