Side chair
Unknown
ca. 1720–30 · Walnut, decorated with carved gesso, gilt · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
This model was fashionable in England and Italy early during the eigthteenth century and numerous, also later, examples exist. This chair is believed to have come from Palazzo Borghese in Rome.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 1720–30
- Medium
- Walnut, decorated with carved gesso, gilt
- Culture
- British
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. L. W. Gorham, Paul Cushman and E. Sanderson Cushman, 1958
