Chair
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1840
name: label: Attributed to
content: Duncan Phyfe, American, 1768–1854
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 center. Plain veneered seat rail semicircular about back, straight on sides, slightly bowed on front. Back, with ogive cresting, descends in forward curve to seat rail. Arms, round in section, terminate in volute supported by conventionalized lotus flower springing from volute and lotus leaf resting on front leg. Chair upholstered on both sides of back and on boxed slip seat, 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: 1926-22-487
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Chair
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Turned, carved, and joined mahogany (legs and back), mahogany veneer (frame), oak, maple, ash (secondary wood in frame), brass (casters)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 90.1 x 55.7 x 57.1cm (35 1/2 x 21 15/16 x 22 1/2in.)