Side Chair
CultureEnglish
Dateca. 1755
MediumMahogany with upholstery
DimensionsOverall: 38 3/8 × 25 × 23 1/2 inches (97.47 × 63.5 × 59.69 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number33-20
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DescriptionChippendale side chair, finely carved back; seat upholstered in green figured silk velvet with Chippendale pattern.ProvenanceWilliam Hesketh Lever (1851-1925), 1st Viscount Leverhulme, The Hill, Hampstead, England, by 1925;
Purchased at his posthumous sale, The Art Collections of the Late Viscount Leverhulme, The Anderson Galleries, New York, lot 95, February 9, 1926, by French & Co., New York, stock no. 28267, 1926-January 30, 1933 [1];
Purchased from French & Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.
NOTES:
[1] Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, French & Co. Stock Sheets, box 30, folder 3.
The Art Collections of the Late Viscount Leverhulme, Part One (New York: The Anderson Galleries, 1929), 26, (repro.).
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