Side chair
- English, about 1730
- England
- Dimensions
- 105.5 cm (41 9/16 in.)
- Medium or Technique
- Mahogany
- Classification
- Furniture
- Type
- seating; Chair
- Accession Number
- 36.273
- On view
- Simone and Alan Hartman Galleries (Newland House) - 241B
Mon–Tue:10 am–4:45 pm;
Wed–Fri: 10 am–9:45 pm;
Sat–Sun: 10 am–4:45 pm
Shaped and carved uprights with scaled conventional shell at top join elaborately carved and shaped splat. Seat upholstered in maroon velvet. Carved cabriole legs with shell on knees, claw and ball feet.
Given in memory of Dr. William Hewson Baltzell, by his wife Alice Cheney Baltzell
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