Details
The shaped crest rail flanked by serpentine ears continuing to out-scrolling arms, loose seat cushion on saddle-shaped seat over shell-carved cabriole legs ending in pad feet connected by block-and-ring-turned H-form stretcher covered overall in an 18th century gros and petit point figural needlework worked in wool with silk highlights, possibly original, the underside with Irwin Untermeyer collection label marked 'IRWIN UNTERMYER COLLECTION/ 289/ F' and also painted white inventory number '1238'
47 in. (119.5 cm.) high, 3414 in. (87 cm.) wide, 2434 in. (63 cm.) deep
Provenance
Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964.
Property of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Christie's New York, 27 October 2015, lot 202.
Acquired from the above sale.
Literature
Y. Hackenbroch, English Furniture with some furniture from other countries in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958, pl. 57, fig. 80.
Y. Hackenbroch, English and other Needlework, Tapestries and Textiles in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1960, pl. 99, fig. 137.
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