“Corvisart” Desk Chair (ca. 1795)
Attributed to Georges Jacob after design by Charles Percier
Mahogany, copper, green leather
Chateaux de Malmaison et Bois-Preau, Rueil-Malmaison, France, Gift of Baron Rabusson-Corvisart, 1950, inv. M.M. 50.6.1.
From the exhibition: Charles Percier: Architecture and Design in an Age of Revolutions
Wine Cup with Cover (jue 角) (Vessel: ca. 1200–1000 BCE, Cover: 1644–1911)
Bronze
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1943 (43.27.1a, b). Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
From the exhibition: Design by the Book: Chinese Ritual Objects and the Sanli Tu
Shoe
Rudolstadt
Porcelain
Bard Graduate Center Study Collection, Gift of Susan Yecies.