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Collections > Furniture > Chair

Chair

Part of a set of twelve chairs in carved oak in "style troubadour", with heavily sprung seats. Each chair is raised on baluster-turned legs and the arched top with a cresting field of a blank shield supported by two griffins. these and back panels upholstered in needlepoint. The main panel of this chair shows two birds plucking fruit from a bush, and the seat shows shaped panel of petit-point in silk and wool showing a sheep and a goat. Size: Height: 119 cm; Width: 48 cm; Depth: 46 cm.

School: French

Place: France

Object Type: chair

Period: Napoleon III

Actual Date: c. 1855

Century: 19th century

Materials: Embroidered, Oak

Museum Accession Number: FW.404.E