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SM XF113. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Justin Piperger
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Trellis-back armchair, by ?David Bruce (1792-1823) or John Robins (1776-1828), c.1820

Mahogany with leather upholstery

Height: 87cm
Width: 56cm
Depth: 56cm

Museum number: XF113

On display: Library-Dining Room
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house. For tours https://www.soane.org/your-visit

Curatorial note

Mahogany and leather. Over-upholstered, with slightly bowed top rail; rectangular reeded top rails; fluted back uprights with rectangular ebonised panels top and bottom; paterae on top of the top rail at each end; the backs with inset reeded frame enclosing a diagonal (elongated diamond) trellis with moulded paterae at the intersections; reeded arms; sabre-shaped back legs and reeded tapering front legs with three bands of circular moulding around the top of each front leg; there are no terminations at the feet of the front legs. Pair to XF127.


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