Armchair

CultureEnglish
Titles
  • Armchair
Datec. 1779
MediumBeech; various secondary woods, gilding, and upholstery (not original)
Dimensions39 1/4 × 24 1/4 × 20 1/2 in. (99.7 × 61.6 × 52.1 cm)
Credit LineThe Rienzi Collection, museum purchase funded by Mr. and Mrs. Harris Masterson III
Object number96.1079
Current Location
Rienzi
Drawing Room
Exposé

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Department
Rienzi
Object Type
Provenance[Mallett, London]; Joseph Holtzman, New York; [Mallett, London]; purchased by MFAH, 1996.
Exhibition History"Neoclassicism: A Taste for the Antique, 1720-1790," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Brown Foundation Galleries, March 20-May 30, 2011.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
FS stamped into the back underside of seat rail

Like a seemingly identical armchair which has been in the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto since 1943, this chair is impressed on the underside of the seat rail with the letters “FS,” which may be a craftsman’s mark.

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