Armchair
Unknown
ca. 1755 · Mahogany · The American Wing
This armchair is significantly larger than most made in this period and exudes a confident monumentality. It was made in the 1750s, when the taste for naturalistic ornament—mostly leaves and shells—was first being grafted onto the curvilinear Queen Anne forms of the 1730s.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 1755
- Medium
- Mahogany
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1925
