
Cleveland Museum of Art
Desk Chair with Swivel Mechanism
- Date
- c. 1780
- Medium
- walnut with caning and leather upholstery
- Culture
- France, Paris
- Department
- Decorative Art and Design
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 140348
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
- Provenance
- Jacques Dubois de Chefdebien (Etienne Adler, Paris, 13-14 Febraury 1941); (Fabre, Paris); (Samy Chalom, Paris, 1956); Severance and Greta Millikin, Cleveland, 1959.
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