Side chair
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1840
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: 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.
place: label: made in
content: New York, New York, USA
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Mrs. John Innes Kane
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1926-22-491
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Side chair
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Mahogany veneered oak and ash (frame), solid mahogany (legs, arms, and back), brass (coasters)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 82.8 x 46.9 x 50.6cm (32 5/8 x 18 7/16 x 19 15/16in.)