American Period Furniture in Museum Collectionsa SAPFM viewer

In the collection ofMetropolitan Museum of Art

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

Thomas Roberts

In the collection of Metropolitan Museum of Art

Maker

Thomas Roberts

Date

ca. 1689

Medium

Ebonized beechwood, Genoese 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

1998.297.2

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