Chair
Production date
1840-1860
Description
A heavy wooden colonial armchair set on four wheeled legs. The chair has a high curved back carved from a single piece of timber and the dark wood has no surface ornamentation.
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Object detail
Artist/Maker
Production role
Manufacturer
Production date
1840-1860
Production place
Production period
Subject person
Classification
Credit line
This
chair
remained
in
the
Pearn-Heal
family
for
over
100
years
before
it
was
donated
to
the
Taranaki
Museum.
Jonathan
Pearn
was
a
carpenter
and
a
pioneer
in
New
Plymouth
and
the
back
of
the
chair
has
been
cut
and
shaped
from
the
bole
of
a
single
Pukatea
tree.
The
early
Victorian
style
is
reminiscent
of
hand-crafted
Cornish
furniture
of
an
earlier
period.
Accession number
A96.620
Collection type
Material
Public comments
This chair was made by my great-great-great grandfather. He was the youngest son of a family of carpenters who emigrated from Boscastle, Cornwall to Taranaki. His son William was the father of my great-grandfather Henry, who was born in New Zealand and grew up to work as an axeman there, but moved to North Queensland in the early 1990s to farm sugarcane.
- Janet Hope posted 4 months ago.