Ebony chair, Ebony chair covered with, later applied, green silk with flower basket motifs. The bent front legs on bobbins are decorated with stitching on the corners, the hind legs lean backwards. The front line carries a heart-shaped ornament in the middle flanked by a curling leaf. The back is conceived as a kind of cartouche within a frame decorated with symmetrical leaf motif, which ends in the middle with a fanning motif. The struts of the back window are in leaf form., anonymous, Northern Netherlands, c. 1850 - c. 1875, wood (plant material), ebony (wood), silk, cotton (textile), damask

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