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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2018.297.2
People
Manufactured by George Seddon, Sons, & Shackleton, British (London active c. 1790 - c. 1795 London)
Title
Shield-Back Armchair (one of a pair)
Classification
Furniture
Work Type
chair
Date
c. 1790
Period
George III (1760-1820)
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/362109

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Painted beech and modern upholstery
Dimensions
97 × 53 × 55 cm (38 3/16 × 20 7/8 × 21 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • plaque: bottom of seat back: ANTIQUE FURNITURE / from / NORMAN ADAMS LTD. / 8-10, HANS ROAD, LONDON. S.W.3.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Norman Adams, London], sold; to Horace W. Brock, Gloucester, 1991

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Horace W. Brock
Accession Year
2018
Object Number
2018.297.2
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Horace W. Brock, Martin Levy, and Clifford S. Ackley, Splendor and Elegance: European Decorative Arts and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock Collection, exh. cat., MFA Publications (Boston, 2009), pp. 69, 153, cat. no. 60, repr. p. 69

Exhibition History

  • Splendor and Elegance: European Decorative Arts and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 01/22/2009 - 05/17/2009

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