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Two chairs

Ref: 1854
  • Designer

    Designed by Edward Welby Pugin (1834-75)

  • Detail

    Oak, with horn inlay

    82.6 x 55.9 x 45.3 cm

    English, circa 1870

  • Collections

    Saint Louis Museum of Art (one chair) and Metropolitan Museum of Art (one chair)

  • Notes

    An undated record of this model, inscribed ‘Granville Chair / front elevation of chair quarter real size Designed by E. Welby Pugin’, is preserved in the National Archive, Kew (BT/43/58, no. 245877) – illustrated in our Furniture and Works of Art (2006), no. 9 -see detail, below

    Each chair from a pair to this design (private collection) is marked with the design registration diamond for 17 October 1870 – see below

    Identical examples are in the collections of the Los Angeles Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago, while others are in private collections in the United Kingdom and the U.S.A.