Child's Chair
Decorative Arts and Design
MEDIUM
Wood, original leather, metal tacks
DATES
ca. 1850
DIMENSIONS
20 3/4 x 13 1/8 x 18 5/8 in. (52.7 x 33.3 x 47.3 cm)
MARKINGS
Unmarked
ACCESSION NUMBER
2014.86
CREDIT LINE
H. Randolph Lever Fund
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Child's chair with original tooled red leather seat. An example of the combining of indigenous and Western Neoclassicism into a hybrid form. A small chair comprised of two joined parts, a concave 'U' upper section forming chair back and front legs and second attached concave lower section forming the seat and rear curved legs; turned front and rear stretchers and attached arched head rest at top; the whole covered with a tooled red leather seat with floral and abstract geometric designs, attached to frame with metal gold colored tacks. Spanish term for this form is butaca or Campeche.
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