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Chair

Armchair

Beauvais|Jean Berain · 1715–20

Medium: Carved and gilded beechwood, with Beauvais tapestry covers of silk and wool
Dimensions: 49 1/2 × 27 1/2 × 23 1/2 in. (125.7 × 69.9 × 59.7 cm)
Accession: 14.40.780
Credit line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
Culture: French

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