Chairs
date: label: Date
content: 1780–90
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The chairs' frames are of carved, unpainted fruitwood. The chairs' backs, seats, and armpads are upholstered and eged with brass-headed nails. The chairs' backs are rectangular, wider at the top than at the bottom. The chairs' top rails are carved in leaf designs on a narrow project-center cornices that groove in concave side curves. Pyramided acanthus finial surmounts each side rail. The chair arms terminate in scrolls above curved supports. The chairs' bowed seat rail rests on fluted and tapered legs, terminating in plain tapered feet. The chairs' forelegs are surmounted by cubical blocks.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Greenfield
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1968-33-1-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Chairs
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: fruitwood, wool tapestry, brass-headed nails
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 84 x 58 x 58.5 cm (33 1/16 x 22 13/16 x 23 1/16 in.)