Desk chair - Bard Graduate Center

Coffret des jouets (toy box) (1913)
Sonia Delaunay
Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris, gift of Sonia Delaunay
Oil on Wood

Digital Image © CNAC/MNAM, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY / Georges Meguerditchian. © Pracusa

Desk chair (1805-08)
Georges Hoentschel
France
Mahogany, gilt bronze, cut satin-velvet upholstery
34½ x 23½ x 25½ in. (87.6 x 59.7 x 64.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906 (07.225.53). Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

From the exhibition:

Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lion-type Mask (1820-70)
Unknown Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw maker
Painted (?), carved wood

©Trustees of the British Museum, Am +.436.

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