Armchair

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Applied Arts of Europe

c. 1690–c. 1700

Coromandel Coast, probably Madras (Chennai), India

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Applied Arts of Europe

Title: Armchair
Place: Coromandel Coast (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1685–1705
Medium: Ebony, ivory, and rattan
Dimensions: 105.5 × 63.5 × 71.2 cm (41 1/2 × 25 × 28 in.)
Credit Line: Neville and John H. Bryan Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2024.63
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Orlebar family, Finedon Hall, Northamptonshire, then Hinwick House, Bedfordshire, by 1930 [Orlebar 1930]; sold, Sotheby’s, London, Nov. 29, 2002, lot 103, to Harris Lindsay, London [this and the following according to correspondence with Lindsay, Oct.– Nov. 2023; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to private collection, 2003; consigned to Jonathan Burden, New York, by 2023; offered to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2024.

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