International studio . offer forms the seat, the only differ-ence being in the decoration on the back. Twoother chairs in the Metropolitan Museum, withone seat only, show a similar construction con-sisting of a coffer, high back, and arm-rests, butwithout a canopy. One of them from the Hoentschel Collection hasa very simple and beautiful form. Its decorationconsists only of linen-folds and on top a frieze ofopen tracery. It is of the fifteenth century. Thereare many chairs similar to it, among others twochairs in the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris,Sone from the Gavet Collection,* and one in
International studio . offer forms the seat, the only differ-ence being in the decoration on the back. Twoother chairs in the Metropolitan Museum, withone seat only, show a similar construction con-sisting of a coffer, high back, and arm-rests, butwithout a canopy. One of them from the Hoentschel Collection hasa very simple and beautiful form. Its decorationconsists only of linen-folds and on top a frieze ofopen tracery. It is of the fifteenth century. Thereare many chairs similar to it, among others twochairs in the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris,Sone from the Gavet Collection,* and one in theIndustrial Museum in Another chair inthe Metropolitan Museum from the late fifteenth rHavard, Dictionnaire de lameublement, 1887-1890,v. I. p. 634. j Met man it Briere, Musee des arts decoratifs: lebois 1905 . v. i. pi. IX. no. 37 and pi. XII. no. 47. * Catalogue de la Collection Gavet, 1897, pi. no. 62. t Jacob von Falke, Mittelalterliches Holzmobiliar,pi. Y, no. 2. French Furniture, Gothic and Renaissance. century, purchased in 1907 from the Rogers Fund,though of similar construction, shows a differentdecoration on the back. Instead of linen-folds,there are rosettes and leaves of a complicated de-sign. In the decoration and construction it showsmany analogies with two chairs in the Musee desArts Decoratifs, in Paris.+ Among other pieces of Gothic furniture in theMetropolitan Museum there is a large panel witha niche in the form of a tabernacle, of very simpleand fine construction, of the late fifteenth century.(Reproduced fig. 5.) It is an especially interest-ing piece, showing once more the customs of thetime. It very probably is a fragment of a largerensemble placed at that time against the wall toprotect the apartments from cold and humidityand to give them also a more habitable a certain extent they seem to have fulfilled thefunction of tapestries and other hangings. Amuch larger panel in the Charles Stein Collection; t Metman el Briere, op. tit., pi
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