Chairs & Stools

Chairs 

Chairs on Heraldic Art.

 

Folding chair (Brooklyn Museum 78.196). Japan - 15th C.

Sgabello chair (V&A Museum 7870-1861). Italy - 1450-1500

X-shaped chair (Louvre OA 3114). Spain - 1485-1515

Armchair (V&A Museum 7196-1860). Italy - 16th C.

Leather covered armchair (National Gallery of Art 1942.9.380). Italy – 16th C.

Birth of the Virgin, Choir Breviary (Laud Misc. 93, fol. 144r). France - beginning of 16th C.

Print (V&A Museum 15905). Italy - 1509

Armchair (V&A Museum FE.27-1989). China - 1550-1600

Peasants by the Hearth by Pieter Aertsen, 1560s

Armchair (V&A Museum 803-1895). France - 1580

 

Stools 

Stool on Heraldic Art. 

 

Volcanic stone stool (Brooklyn Museum 31.1689). Costa Rica - 1000-1300

The Dissolute Household by Pieter Balten (National Gallery of Art 1943.3.1449). Netherlands – 16th C.

Oba Esigie's throne stool (Ethnologisches MuseumIII C 20296). Nigeria - 16th C.

Garden seat (Brooklyn Museum 52.49.3). China - 1506-21

Walnut stool (National Gallery of Art 1942.9.362). Italy - ca. 1540-60

The Wedding at Cana by Ludger tom Ring the Younger (Gemäldegalerie 708). 1562 

Stool (V&A Museum W.46-1946). England - 1580-1625

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