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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…

  • Seal (France), ca. 1905

    Tall, tapering stem rising from flaring, swirling base, with scrolls on one side. Top of stem scrolled and ending in flat oval bearing the engraved initials “A G” (Adeline Guimard”

  • 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…

  • Seal

    Loan reciept #1257 documents this loan, Bliss # 683, subsequently becoming accession number 1967-48-56. It is described as a “Seal, made from silver-gilt statuette of angel.

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