A Victorian Aesthetic movement oak armchair, the top rail carved with rows of stylised acorn foliage above the motto Dotior Origine Virtus, the rectangular back centred by a panel carved with a stylised stellar medallion, in a radiating shield border, the down scrolled armrests carved with scrolling foliage and flowerheads, and each inscribed Alicia Boyd Donum Dedit Gulielmo Bell Scott MDCCCLX (A Gift Given to Alice Boyd from William Bell Scott 1850) with red upholstered squab seat, on moulded x-framed supports; and a tin cannister enclosing a hand painted manuscript to commemorate the resignation of William Bell Scott as Master of the School of Art, Newcastle upon Tyne of from his Friends and Pupils; A Charter from the Royal Scottish Academy of Sculpture and Architecture, dated March 1888 W. Bell Scott on being elected an Honourary Member and an illuminated manuscript W. Bell Scott Esq, inscribed 19 Master of the School of Art, Newcastle upon Tyne, and inscribed by various Pupils