Side Chair
A carved wooden side chair with a shell-topped crest rail and a pierced splat of interlaced ribbon curves. Its upholstered seat, in a patterned damask, rests on cabriole legs ending in ball-and-claw feet, with a shell carved at the knee.
Look closer: A carved shell decorates the top center of the crest rail.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1760–90
- Medium
- Mahogany, Atlantic white cedar, cherry
- Source
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Size
- 1950 × 2406 px
Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1790).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1921