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Description:
Pair of Victorian Mahogany Hall Chairs with Scroll Carved Shield Backs and Solid Seats with Serpentine Front Rail c1880 J. Manuel - Sheffield
John Manuel & Son were one of the largest cabinet-makers in Sheffield at the end of the 19th century and were commissioned to make bespoke items for many leading industrialists as well as for the Earl of Wharncliffe at Wotley Hall,Colonel Spencer Stanhope at Cannon Hall and the Earls of Bradford at Weston Park,Shropshire.(Materialising the domestic interior.Sheffield's nineteenth-century furniture industry),University of Sheffield, www./banham/MSbanham.htm) They are also recorded in the Annual reports of the Sheffield Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor, preserved at Leeds University (BL Spec Colln Yorkshire H-She-5.3).
| Status: No Longer Available |
Reference#: 2832 |
| Condition:
Excellent |
Year:
1880
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| Country:
England |
Maker:
J. Manuel - Sheffield |
| Height:
34 in. (86.36 cm) |
Depth:
16 in. (40.64 cm) |
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Width: 18 in. (45.72 cm)
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| Materials:
Mahogany |
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