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  • wooden chair with needlepoint upholstery Armchair, 1690–95

    Tall back with straight molded enframement sides and bottom, shaped at top. Crest of pierced volutes and scrolls. Slender arms, scrolled and raked at the knuckles, on turned supports. Flat…

  • Saucer, ca. 1800

    Straight with flaring edge. Overglaze decoration: band of blue and yellow, divided by scrolled undulating lines. Gold lines.

  • Saucer, 1790

    Curved shape, reeding on the outside. Decoration of underglaze blue “strohblumen” pattern.

  • Saucer, ca. 1790

    Curved, with “strohblumen” pattern in underglaze blue.

  • Saucer (France), mid-18th century

    Saucer of pinkish buff clay with grayish glaze. Polychrome painting of bird with long tail on blossoming tree branch flowers and pagoda. On edge, yellow and brown lines, the innermost…

  • Reading chair Armchair, ca. 1720–30

    Form with square tapering seat and tall narrow back upholstered in dark brown nailed leather; back with horizontal U-curved arms at top fitted with hinged, adjustable wooden book rest on…

  • Armchair (China (for export)), ca. 1815

    Armchair, square in plan, constructed entirely of bamboo except for caned seat. Back designed with small rectangular openings, each filled with tiny open motif. Similar worked details beneath armrest and…

  • Rosalie Armchair, design: 1850; Crest decoration design: 1849

    A) Upholstered, laminated rosewood back, topped by carved flowers-and-fruit garland. Back frame formed of inverted U-shaped scroll at top and serpentine section at bottom. Serpentine arms join back frame with…

  • Sheffield armchair Armchair, 1875–80

    The crest rail is round eared with carved scrolls at center. The seat is characterized by a serpentine front, on thin cabriole legs that terminate in padded slipper feet. The…

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