SIDE CHAIR
Creator(s): Unknown (Maker)
On view in: French Drawing Room
About this object
Frame is gilded and carved wood. Back has lyre in openwork which rests on a cross piece carved with gadrooning. At either side is a channeled tapering support with acanthus at the base. Across the top of the back is another strip also carved with gadrooning with a leaf motif at center of the front and a rosette where this frame joins the legs. The legs are in reverse of the sidepieces for the back and all the legs on the four pieces have new tips.
- Object name:
- SIDE CHAIR
- Made from:
- Wood -- upholstery
- Made in:
- Russia
- Date made:
- 18th c.
- Size:
- 86.4 cm (34 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 32.5
- Class:
- FURNITURE
- Signature marks:
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973