Side Chair
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1785
name: label: Style of
content: Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801
notes: label: Description
content: Elaborately carved and painted side chair. Back composed of crossed cornucopia, from which spring almost at right angles griffins and heads, holding between them an umbrella shaped canopy, with foliated stem of trumpet flowers, in false Chinese taste; surface is painted in buff, red, green, and blue. The rounded tapering legs curve inwards in the middle but splay out towards the feet; above the finely tapered feet, are carved acanthus leaves. Top of legs have square capitols carved with acanthus leaves and berries.
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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 the Countess Costantini
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1924-6-1
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: wood, paint, gilding, textile
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 100 x 46.5 x 41.5 cm (39 3/8 x 18 5/16 x 16 5/16 in.)