Furniture and Decorative Arts of Sri Lanka

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Title

Side chair

Subject

Furniture

Description

Trafalgar pattern side chair, with pierced and leaf-carved top rail and cross bar, with reeded and over-scrolled uprights, caned, drop-in seat, leaf-carved front seat rail and reeded sabre legs.

Source

National Museum of Sri Lanka, Colombo

Date

1850-1899

Relation

Full size, front
Whole

Identifier

nmc86.397.1ab

FDASL Item Type Metadata

Period

2nd quarter 19th century

Place of Creation

SW Sri Lanka

Measurements (H: W: L:)

84 x 40 x 44 cm. (33 1/10 x 15 7/10 x 17 3/10 in.)

Materials

Ebony

Techniques

Carved and joined

Features

Foliage and reeded design

Notes

A Trafalgar pattern chair, on which the present chairs are modelled, is illustrated in Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, vol. VI, December 1811, plate 34

Citation

"Side chair," online in Digital Library for International Research Archive, Item #353, http://www.dlir.org/archive/items/show/353 (accessed May 1, 2026).

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