Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Straight-sided front legs, set square, curving outward toward voluted foot; lotus leaf carved on knee, with volute in side of knee. Back legs square in section, curving outward from centre. Plain veneered seat rail semicircular on back straight on sides, slightly bowed in front. Back, with ogive cresting, descends in curve to join seat rail, terminating in slightly scrolled lotus leaf carved above front leg; fiddle-shaped splat in back, with pierced hand-grip hole above. Slip seat upholstered with red silk damask, edged with brocaded trimming in red and yellow.
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Mrs. John Innes Kane
- ca. 1840
- Accession Number
- 1926-22-491
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- furniture
- Decorative Arts
- Side chair
- Medium
- Mahogany veneered oak and ash (frame), solid mahogany (legs, arms, and back), brass (coasters)
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 82.8 x 46.9 x 50.6cm (32 5/8 x 18 7/16 x 19 15/16in.)
- made in
- New York, New York, USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1926-22-491
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq479d23af3-780d-4881-98b4-fda610ba21bd
