<em>Side Chair (Taburete)</em>, 1750-1800. Mahogany with modern upholstery, 40 x 22 x 16 3/4 in. (101.6 x 55.9 x 42.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Robert W. Dowling, 64.243.1. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 64.243.1_PS4.jpg)

Side Chair (Taburete), 1750-1800. Mahogany with modern upholstery, 40 x 22 x 16 3/4 in. (101.6 x 55.9 x 42.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Robert W. Dowling, 64.243.1. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 64.243.1_PS4.jpg)

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Side Chair (Taburete)

Decorative Arts

On View: American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, From Colonies to States, 1660–1830

MEDIUM Mahogany with modern upholstery

Place Manufactured: Mexico

DATES 1750-1800

DIMENSIONS 40 x 22 x 16 3/4 in. (101.6 x 55.9 x 42.5 cm) (show scale)

MARKINGS no marks

SIGNATURE no signature

INSCRIPTIONS no inscriptions

COLLECTIONS Decorative Arts

MUSEUM LOCATION This item is on view in American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, From Colonies to States, 1660–1830

EXHIBITIONS

Behind Closed Doors: Art in the Spanish American Home, 1492–1898

ACCESSION NUMBER 64.243.1

CREDIT LINE Gift of Robert W. Dowling

RIGHTS STATEMENT Creative Commons-BY

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CAPTION Side Chair (Taburete), 1750-1800. Mahogany with modern upholstery, 40 x 22 x 16 3/4 in. (101.6 x 55.9 x 42.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Robert W. Dowling, 64.243.1. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 64.243.1_PS4.jpg)

IMAGE overall, 64.243.1_PS4.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2013

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CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Part of a set of mahogany side chairs (64.243.1-.4) with slip seats and simple cabriole legs with claw and ball feet and straight rear legs. Thick skirt around three sides. Seat is almost rectangular, curving slightly. Back made of curving stiles topped by curving rail with scroll design in center. Splat is elaboration of fiddle shape pierced with three narrow upper openings and diamond shape below. A narrow molding outlines the splat and its openings, the inner side of rails and stiles, bottom of skirt and overlaps onto knee of cabriole legs. CONDITION - Good

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