Arm chair with upholstered seat and seat back in yellow chintz with orange peony and tiger lily flowers. Wooden frame and arms. Seat back is squarish with craved top with symetrical scrolls and feather design. Arms scroll to front with a 4-petal flower
Arm chair with upholstered seat and seat back in yellow chintz with orange peoney and tiger lilly flowers. Wooden frame and arms. Seat back is squarish with craved top with symetrical scrolls and feather design. Arms scroll to front with a 4-petel flower
Louis XV Balloon-back side chair with rosewood frame and yellow upholdered seat. Chair frame has fruit and leaf carved crest and horizontal molded splat with a central carved shell motif. Continuously curved and rounded top rail curves seamlessly into uprights, forming an unbroken balloon-shaped loop transitioning into back-curving rear legs. Short, curved, bracket-like arms connect back to seat. Flaring seat has serpentine front and cyma-curved sides with over-the-rail upholstery. The lower half of seat rail is exposed with serpentine curve at front. Cabriole front legs have peg feet.
Provenance
Descent within James Buchanan Henry family to donors.
Gift of the family of Eleanor N. Henry (John D. McNeill Jr., Mary Catherine West, James Buchanan Henry IV, and Elizabeth Henry Rich).
2015 re-upholstery. Expected wear to wood. Old repairs to breaks at shoulders of balloon back and upper section of crest rail. Underneath seat rails are old tack holes from previous upholstery that apparently covered entire seat frame.
Object ID
E.2013.008.26
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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