  
  About the Artwork
  
  
  This armchair, in the shape of a late eighteenth-century French berg&Atilde;&uml;re, 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.
  
  
  Title
  Club Chair
  
  
  Artwork Date
  between 1880 and 1890
  
  Artist
  Attributed to Louis Comfort Tiffany
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1848-1933
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation.
  
  
  
  American
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Ash with boxwood, satinwood, lemonwood, ebony, rosewood, and brass inlay
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall: 32 3/4 &Atilde;&#151; 24 7/8 &Atilde;&#151; 23 1/2 inches (83.2 &Atilde;&#151; 63.2 &Atilde;&#151; 59.7 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Furniture
  
  
  Department
  American Art before 1950
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase, Beatrice W. Rogers Fund, Edward E. Rothman Fund, and Eleanor and Edsel Ford Exhibition and Acquisition Fund
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum&acirc;&#128;&#153;s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems&acirc;&#128;&#148;no longer assigned&acirc;&#128;&#148;that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  1990.293
  
  
  Copyright
  Copyright Not Evaluated
  
  
  
