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Club Chair

Club Chair, between 1880 and 1890

  • Louis Comfort Tiffany, American, 1848-1933

Ash with boxwood, satinwood, lemonwood, ebony, rosewood, and brass inlay

  • Overall: 32 3/4 × 24 7/8 × 23 1/2 inches (83.2 × 63.2 × 59.7 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Beatrice W. Rogers Fund, Edward E. Rothman Fund, and Eleanor and Edsel Ford Exhibition and Acquisition Fund

1990.293

Department

American Art before 1950

Details

This armchair, in the shape of a late eighteenth-century French bergère, is endowed with naturalistic surface decoration and inlaid Eastern motifs. The legs, tapered and reeded in the eighteenth-century tradition, end in feet made of glass balls held in place by brass claws.

Margot Jonson, Inc

1990-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

"American Decorative Arts Acquisitions 1985-2005." Bulletin of the DIA 81, 1-2 (2007): p. 43.

attributed to Louis Comfort Tiffany, Club Chair, between 1880 and 1890, ash with boxwood, satinwood, lemonwood, ebony, rosewood, and brass inlay. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Beatrice W. Rogers Fund, Edward E. Rothman Fund, and Eleanor and Edsel Ford Exhibition and Acquisition Fund, 1990.293.

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