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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…

  • Beaker (Sweden), 1760

    Tall flaring body with punched lambrequin motif above engraved shell and scroll band and initials E.H.S. Wavy relief band at top and bottom. Flaring gadrooned foot, with traces of gilding.…

  • Beaker (Sweden), ca. 1946

    Straight, flaring body on flaring foot. Royal blue tone on edge and inside bottom, fading out toward middle. Encased decoration of gray semicircles, bell flowers and dots.

  • Beaker (Peru), 400–600

    Concave, flaring sides, and flat bottom. Body covered in white slip and painted with large face of snake with bat headdress, and horizontally displayed body with spiny, curling tail.

  • Beaker, ca. 1700–25

    Four Continents

  • 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…

  • Beaker (USA), ca. 1910

    Straight beaker, rounded at bottom. On sides, tooled irregular nubs. Greenish-hold iridescence.

  • 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…

  • Beaker (Holland), 1680

    Tall, trumpet-shaped cup with incised flowers and fruits between c-scrolls surrounding three cartouches, each containing a woman symbolizing Faith, Hope and Charity respectively; “crown of thorn” band encircles the beaker…

  • 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…

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