Kneeling chair
date: label: Date
content: 1755–90
name: label: Maker
content: C. Chevigny
label: Maker
content: Georges Jacob, French, 1739–1814
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Slender, lyre-shaped back on curved molded supports; exposed frame painted gray; bow-shaped arm rest; low rounded seat with exposed frame with simple molding; quatrefoil rosette in square above each short fluted forleg and above side of each sharply slanting fluted rear leg; small square within square above back of each rear leg; peg-top feet. Back, seat and arm rest upholstered in modern ivory silk with yellow stripe and multi-color bouquets.
place: label: made in
content: France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1968-158-15
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Kneeling chair
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Carved and painted beechwood, silk
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 92.5 x 47.5 x 52cm (36 7/16 x 18 11/16 x 20 1/2in.)