IDENTIFIERS
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id:	307504
accession number:	M.7A-2021

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Tuesday 30 November 2021
updated:	Wednesday 17 January 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: One of a pair (with M.7B-2021) of upholstered mahogany armchairs with beech frames with ornately carved legs and arm uprights, now with replacement ash seat rails. 
Originally covered in yellow pure silk damask, the chair was acquired with replacement crimson damask, replaced in 2023 with modern yellow silk damask covering.
title:	chair

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Made for the Hon. Charles Bruce (1682–1747; 3rd Earl of Ailesbury from 1741) for his family seat, Tottenham House, Wiltshire.
Thence by descent.
Given in 1839 by Charles Brudenell Bruce, 1st Marquess of Ailesbury (1773–1856) to the family’s parish church of St Mary’s, Great Bedwyn, Marlborough.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Bought from St Mary's Church, Great Bedwyn, with the Colin Granville Elliot Legacy Fund, 2021

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/307504





CATEGORIES
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category: chair

DATING
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creation date:	1738 - 1741
creation date earliest:	1738
creation date latest:	1741
culture:	18th Century, Mid
culture:	George II

CREATORS
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maker: Kent, William


EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Black Atlantic: Power | People | Resistance
CITATIONS
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Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance
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