Upholstered armchair, originally from a set of eight, from Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland (one of a pair)
Object type: Armchair
Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Culture: British
Artist: Thomas Roberts
Artist bio: active 1685–1714
Artist role: Maker
Date: ca. 1689
Medium: Ebonized beechwood, Genoese velvet covers original to the chair
Dimensions: Overall: 48 × 28 × 32 in. (121.9 × 71.1 × 81.3 cm)
Classification: Woodwork-Furniture
Credit line: Purchase, Gift of Irwin Untermyer, by exchange, and Bequests of Bernard M. Baruch, Ruth Mabee Lachman Greenleaf, and Irwin Untermyer, by exchange, 1998
Accession year: 1998
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