The Three Cane-Bottom Chairs
These chairs, with squabs now covered in the same plum-coloured hide as the armchair, were bequeathed to the Dickens House by a member of a Kent family, recorded as having bought them at the Gad's Hill Place sale after Dickens's death in 1870. They are of a design first constructed in the late 1830's. The crisp carving and brass inlay-work promt their identification with an entry in the inventory for Dickens's next drawing room, reading "Three cane-bottom fancy chairs."