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Upholstered armchair, originally from a set of eight, from Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland (one of a pair), Thomas Roberts, ca.…

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Chair

Upholstered armchair, originally from a set of eight, from Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland (one of a pair)

Thomas Roberts · ca. 1689

Medium: Ebonized beechwood, Genoese cut-velvet covers (original to the chair)
Dimensions: Overall: 48 × 28 × 32 in. (121.9 × 71.1 × 81.3 cm)
Accession: 1998.297.1
Credit line: Purchase, Gift of Irwin Untermyer, by exchange, and Bequests of Bernard M. Baruch, Ruth Mabee Lachman Greenleaf, and Irwin Untermyer, by exchange, 1998
Culture: British

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