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The Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased a ladder-back chair, which was considered a peasant's chair, and was dated between the 17th and 18th centuries, in 1908. [2] It owns a pair of them made in Philadelphia between 1785–95 that resembles chairs made by Philadelphia furniture maker Daniel Trotter (1747–1800).
Carved shell and S-scroll features on a walnut Philadelphia Queen Anne compass-seat chair, c1750 (Private collection) Curved lines, in feet, legs, arms, crest rails, and pediments, along with restrained ornament (often in a shell shape) emphasizing the material, are characteristic of Queen Anne style. [5]
601 Chair by Dieter Rams. 10 Downing Street Guard Chairs, two antique chairs used by guards in the early 19th century; 14 chair (No. 14 chair) is the archetypal bentwood side chair originally made by the Gebrüder Thonet chair company of Germany in the 19th century, and widely copied and popular today [1]
Francis Trumble was an 18th-century chair and cabinetmaker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Trumble produced a variety of "fine furniture" in the Queen Anne , Chippendale and Federal styles. [ 1 ] He also manufactured Windsor chairs that are believed to be the ones used at Independence Hall by the Second Continental Congress , and depicted in ...
Set of 8 chairs (1779, mahogany, documented to Affleck). [36] One chair is a promised gift to the Philadelphia Museum of Art; another chair was auctioned at Christie's New York, 16 January 1998, [34] now in a private collection; other chairs in private collections.
Chair, c. 1772, mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, height: 97.2 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) A chair is a type of seat, typically designed for one person and consisting of one or more legs, a flat or slightly angled seat and a back-rest.
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A sack-back Windsor armchair by Wallace Nutting. A Windsor chair is a chair built with a solid wooden seat into which the chair-back and legs are round-tenoned, or pushed into drilled holes, in contrast to other styles of chairs whose back legs and back uprights are continuous. The seats of Windsor chairs are often carved into a shallow dish or ...