The Chippendale Society Collection

The Chippendale Society owns a significant collection of Chippendale furniture and related material.

Scroll down to view our online catalogue. Find out more about each item by clicking on its image,
which will open the relevant Google Arts & Culture catalogue entry.

A printed catalogue, published in 2000, is also available to buy, priced at £5 + £2.50 postage. Please use
the contact form to request a copy.

Visit the collection

A selection of objects from the Society's collection is on display at Temple Newsam House near Leeds, where other furniture by Thomas Chippendale and his contemporaries is also on view.

Furniture and other material produced in Chippendale’s workshops can also be seen at several locations in Yorkshire as well as in other houses and museums both in the UK and abroad. You can find details of these venues on the Other Collections and Yorkshire Trail pages.

Image licensing

To license an image of an item in the Society's collection, please download and complete the Application Form and send to admin@thechippendalesociety.co.uk.

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Furniture and furnishings

Needlework panel
Thomas Moore, c.1760

Wallpaper
Unknown, c.1760

Wallpaper fragment
Unknown, c.1760

Parlour chair
Thomas Chippendale, c.1762

Pole firescreen
Thomas Chippendale, 1765

Figure of a crane
Thomas Chippendale, 1769

Reading desk
Thomas Chippendale, 1769

Bed cornices
Thomas Chippendale, c.1769

India picture
Thomas Chippendale, c.1771

Pole firescreen
Thomas Chippendale, c.1771

Coffin furniture
Thomas Chippendale, 1772

Pier table
Thomas Chippendale, 1772

Marquetry table
Thomas Chippendale, 1772

Silk damask fragment
Thomas Chippendale, 1773

Armchair
Thomas Chippendale, c.1773

Wall borders
Thomas Chippendale, c.1773-1775

Bookcase
Thomas Chippendale, c.1775

Stool
Thomas Chippendale, 1777

Pair of pier tables
Thomas Chippendale, c.1778

Face screen
Thomas Chippendale junior, c.1785

Organ Screen
John Wood, c.1803

Works on paper

Invitation card
Thomas Chippendale, c.1753

Drawing for three Chinese chairs
Thomas Chippendale, 1753

Drawing for three chairs
Thomas Chippendale, 1753

Three plates from The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director
Thomas Chippendale, 1754

Drawing for a Gothic candlestand
Thomas Chippendale, 1760

Drawing for four stove grates
Thomas Chippendale, c.1760

Drawing for two dressing tables
Thomas Chippendale, 1760

Drawing for a girandole bracket
Thomas Chippendale, c.1760

Drawing for a table
Thomas Chippendale, c.1760

Drawing for a pedestal and lantern
Thomas Chippendale junior, c.1774

Drawing for a bookcase
Thomas Chippendale junior, c.1774

Drawing for a table with marble top
Thomas Chippendale, c.1774

Drawing for a piano case
Thomas Chippendale, c.1774

Design for a plaster ceiling
Unknown, c.1775

Publications

Print of Hoxton Hospital
Unknown, 1754

The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director
Thomas Chippendale, 1754

The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director
Thomas Chippendale, 1755

The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director
Thomas Chippendale, 1762

London Chronicle
London Chronicle, 1763

Genteel Household Furniture, 2nd edition
The Society of Upholsterers, Cabinet-Makers, &c., c.1763

18th century furniture designs
John Weale, c.1834

Chintz and Chippendale music score
Daisy McGeoch, 1918

US Postage Stamps
United States Postal Service, 2004

Facsimile drawings from The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director
Thomas Chippendale, 2019

Miscellaneous

Spoon
David Chippendale, c.1901

Oak tablet
Robert Thompson, 1968

Portrait of Thomas Pickles
Charles W. R. Shillito of Otley, 1976

Portrait of a man, reputedly Thomas Chippendale junior
Unknown artist, after Thomas Proctor?, c.1795

Painting of Thomas Chippendale and Sir Joshua Reynolds
Charles W. R. Shillito of Otley, 1984

Glass Goblet
Caithness Glass, 1979