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Side chair
English, or Asian export
about 1700
Object Place: East Asia, China for export
Medium/Technique
Wood
Dimensions
Overall: 114.7 cm (45 3/16 in.)
Other (Storage width; sm/BU): 52.3 cm (20 9/16 in.)
Other (Sm/BU): 37.2 cm (14 5/8 in.)
Other (Storage width; sm/BU): 52.3 cm (20 9/16 in.)
Other (Sm/BU): 37.2 cm (14 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
John Wheelock Elliot and John Morse Elliot Fund
Accession Number30.532
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsFurniture
DescriptionModified Spanish feet on curving legs with arrised knee; back legs canted; flat front and side stretchers; turned back stretchers; applied serpentine skirt over seat rails and knees front and sides, with incised line at edge; trapezoidal seat with caning; spooned back with two panels of cane; flat crest with pair of inward curving scrolls and tight scrolls; very small scale caning with braided binded applied front and back.
Inscriptions'IB' stamped on back of right rear leg at seat rail
ProvenanceBought by the MFA for $800. (Accession Date: July 17, 1930)