Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Side chair, with vestigial arms molded in one piece with rounded back having rolled and scalloped edge; cabriole legs; slip seat (upholstered Dec. 1967). Black ground with gilded rococo-revival designs, mother-of-pearl inlay: central motif- fountain, birds and butterfly.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wiesenberger
- ca. 1844
- Accession Number
- 1967-66-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- furniture
- Decorative Arts
- Chair
- Medium
- Molded papier-mâché, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, painted and gilt wood
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 90.5 x 63 x 60.1cm (35 5/8 x 24 13/16 x 23 11/16in.)
- made in
- probably Birmingham, England
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1967-66-1
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq42826cf79-9223-4ae8-8436-be7eeff47b4a
