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Chair

Ref: 27
  • Designer

    Designed by William White (1825-1900)

  • Detail

    Oak, inlaid with walnut, mahogany and ebony; leather upholstery of later date

    91 x 42 x 53 (max. depth)

    English, circa 1850-51

  • Provenance

    Bishop’s Palace in St Colomb Major, Cornwall; […], with Claude Bornoff, 1970s; acquired from Haslam & Whiteway, 1979; Clive and Jane Wainwright

  • Exhibited

    Architect-Designers: Pugin to Mackintosh, Fine Art Society with Haslam & Whiteway, 5-29 May 1981, no. 9 (lent by Clive and Jane Wainwright)

    The Clive and Jane Wainwright Collection, H. Blairman & Sons, 21 June – 14 July 2023, no. 27

  • Literature

    https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O61224/chair-white-william/ (for example in collection of Victoria and Albert Museum, W.63-1979)

    Architect-Designers: Pugin to Mackintosh, London, 1981, p. 8, no. 9

    Clive Wainwright, ‘Ardent Simplicity’, Country Life, 18 October 1990, pp. 150-54 (for a discussion of the Bishops Court furniture)

    Gill Hunter, William White: Pioneer Victorian Architect, Reading, 2010, pl. 1.12

    The John Scott Collection: Architect-Designers from Pugin to Voysey, Fine Art Society with Haslam & Whiteway, 2015, no. 64 (for another example from the same set)

    Clive and Jane Wainwright Collection, London: H. Blairman & Sons, 2023, no. 27

  • Collection

    Private collection