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CHAIR FROM A FURNITURE SUITE, ONE OF FOUR

CHAIR FROM A FURNITURE SUITE, ONE OF FOUR

Cat. no.: 31.96

Artist: Georges Jacob (Manufacturer)

Date: ca. 1780

Part of a suite of four chairs and two sofas. Its softly shaped back is carved with a band of guilloche and seat rails are decorated with laurel leaves and berries. The rectangular, tapering legs...

CHAIR FROM A FURNITURE SUITE, ONE OF FOUR

CHAIR FROM A FURNITURE SUITE, ONE OF FOUR

Cat. no.: 31.97

Artist: Georges Jacob (Maker)

Date: ca. 1780

Part of a suite of four chairs and two sofas. Its softly shaped back is carved with a band of guilloche and seat rails are decorated with laurel leaves and berries. The rectangular, tapering legs...

SOFA

SOFA

Cat. no.: 31.99

Artist: Unknown

Date: Late 18th c.

The frame of this neoclassical canape is carved with a continuous bull's eye along the frame of the back and the frame of the seat. The arms are carved with acanthus leaves at the elbow and where...

ARMCHAIR, ONE OF FOUR

ARMCHAIR, ONE OF FOUR

Cat. no.: 32.16.4

Artist: Unknown (Workshop)

Date: early 19th Century

Carved from a single piece of wood, the front and back legs and supports of this Empire chair terminate in gilded eagle's heads that attach to the arm-rests. Carved and gilded feathers decorate...

STOOL, ONE OF TWO

STOOL, ONE OF TWO

Cat. no.: 33.105.1

Artist: Unknown

Date: 20th c.

Covered in pink silk, one applique band woven in geometric pattern in pink on gray. Fringe all around with four bug tassels at corners. Wood cross supports like a pliant.

STOOL, ONE OF TWO

STOOL, ONE OF TWO

Cat. no.: 33.105.2

Artist: Unknown

Date: 20th c.

Covered in pink silk, one applique band woven in geometric pattern in pink on gray. Fringe all around with four bug tassels at corners. Wood cross supports like a pliant.

FRAME WITH PHOTOGRAPH OF ELEANOR POST CLOSE

FRAME WITH PHOTOGRAPH OF ELEANOR POST CLOSE

Cat. no.: 34.105

Artist: John Alfred Piver (Photographer)

Date: ca. 1935

This silver-painted wooden frame contains a black and white signed photograph of Eleanor Post Close taken around 1935. In the photograph, Eleanor is shown at bust level, looking towards the...

EASTER EGG WITH THE DESCENT INTO LIMBO

EASTER EGG WITH THE DESCENT INTO LIMBO

Cat. no.: 35.15

Artist: Lukutin Factory (Firm)

Date: 19th c.

Surface is lacquered blue with a many colored scene of the Descent into Limbo on the front and the standing figure of a saint on back. Scroll border is in gold and beneath figure of the saint an...

SCABBARD

SCABBARD

Cat. no.: 35.57.1

Artist: Unknown

Date: 19th c.

The silhouette of the scabbard is slightly curved. The ends are rounded and tipped with silvered copper incised with a pattern of flower and leaf sprays. On each side is a gilt leaf and flower...

DAGGER

DAGGER

Cat. no.: 35.57.2

Artist: Unknown

Date: 19th c.

The dagger has a steel blade of which the tip is broken. It has a handle with off-white pebbling and an applied gilt metal leaf spray on the side. The very end is a rounded gilt metal piece. At...

TABLE SECRETARY

TABLE SECRETARY

Cat. no.: 36.125

Artist: Unknown (Workshop)

Date: mid 18th Century

This jewel chest in the shape of a drop-front secretary was produced in the city of Kholmogory, located near Archangel on the White Sea. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the town...

TAPESTRY WITH THE SCENES "L'OPERATEUR" AND "LA CURIOSITÉ"

TAPESTRY WITH THE SCENES "L'OPERATEUR" AND "LA CURIOSITÉ"

Cat. no.: 41.1

Artist: François Boucher (Designer)

Date: 1736

In the ranking among the French tapestry factories, Beauvais occupied an intermediate position between the Gobelins Tapestry Manufactory, which worked almost exclusively for the king, and Aubusson...

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