American Period Furniture in Museum Collections
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Chair
Armchair (fauteuil à la reine)
Maker unknown · ca. 1750–60
Medium
Carved and gilded beech; covered in eighteenth-century blue damask not original to the armchair
Dimensions
Overall: 43 1/4 × 29 1/2 × 23 1/2 in. (109.9 × 74.9 × 59.7 cm)
Accession
41.190.74
Credit line
Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941
Culture
Southwestern German
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