Sgabello (one of a pair)
Unknown
ca. 1575–1600 · Carved and painted walnut · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
The sgabello is a type of chair or stool with carved and often elaborately ornamented wood legs and back. The form originated in Renaissance Italy, and its popularity spread throughout Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 1575–1600
- Medium
- Carved and painted walnut
- Culture
- Italian, Florence
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1963
