Side Chair

This chair reflects a dramatic change in seating furniture that took place toward the end of the 1720s. The uprights curve and the backrest becomes a single broad splat. Chairs of this type also retain earlier features such as vase-and-block turned legs and ball-and-ring turned front stretchers. Similar leather chairs often have scrolled or so-called Spanish feet. This chair retains its original Russia leather upholstery on the back panel and on the band along the edges of the seat.