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

Thomas Roberts

Maker

Thomas Roberts

Date

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)

Form

Chair

Culture

British

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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