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Collections > Furniture > Part of a pair of caned settees

Part of a pair of caned settees

The back panels of this pair of caned settees are decorated with carvings of musical instruments, a lyre crossed with a pair of trumpets. This suggests that the settees were intended to be used in a music room. The back panels are also carved with two thyrsus, a staff tipped with ornaments resembling pine cones, which was carried by Dionysus the Greek god of fertility and wine. In Greek Mythology Hermes created the lyre and Athena invented the trumpet, while the staffs represent Dionysus.
Size: Height: 86 cm; Length: 114 cm; Depth: 46 cm.

School: English

Place: England

Object Type: settee

Period: George III

Actual Date: c. 1810

Century: 18th - 19th century

Materials: Mahogany, Cane

Museum Accession Number: FW.186