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Side Chair with Coat of Arms of Fourth Earl of Scarsdale Chair
This is a chair. It was attributed to Thomas How. It is dated 1724–36 and we acquired it in 1926. Its medium is walnut and beechwood, gilt pewter, gilt and reverse-painted glass (verre églomisé) panel, mortise-and-tenon construction. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
This chair is one of a suite supplied to Nicholas, fourth Earl of Scarsdale (d. 1736) for his house, Sutton Scarsdale in Derbyshire, a large commission that incorporated the Earl's coat of arms and coronet, reverse painted and gilded onto glass into the chairback . The suite included twelve side chairs, two settees and two pedestals. This chair is marked on the seat rail VI. Annie Schermerhorn Kane bequeathed this one to Cooper-Hewitt and one of the pedestals to the Metropolitan Museum in 1926, where it was later joined by two other chairs from the set that she had also owned. The chairs unusual use of verre eglomise and gilded metal as part of the decoration make this suite very distinctive.
This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled Personalized Furniture with a Bit of Flash.
This object was
bequest of
Mrs. John Innes Kane.
It is credited Bequest of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
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Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 104.1 x 55 x 57 cm (41 in. x 21 5/8 in. x 22 7/16 in.)
It is inscribed
VI on seat rail
Cite this object as
Side Chair with Coat of Arms of Fourth Earl of Scarsdale Chair; Attributed to Thomas How (British, active 1710 - 33); England; walnut and beechwood, gilt pewter, gilt and reverse-painted glass (verre églomisé) panel, mortise-and-tenon construction; H x W x D: 104.1 x 55 x 57 cm (41 in. x 21 5/8 in. x 22 7/16 in.); Bequest of Mrs. John Innes Kane; 1926-22-58
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Hewitt Sisters Collect.
