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Folding chair
Edward W. Vaill, American, active 1861–92
furniture, decorative arts, folding chair — carved, joined and turned wood or mahogany, woven wool upholstery, metal tacks · 1863
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
No. 4
Gebrüder Thonet, Austrian, founded 1853
furniture, decorative arts, rocking chair — bent beechwood, woven caning · 1860
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Armchair
Gebrüder Thonet, Austrian, founded 1853
furniture, decorative arts, armchair — beechwood, rattan · 1860
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
No. 19
Gebrüder Thonet, Austrian, founded 1853
furniture, decorative arts, side chair — bent wood, woven caning · 1860
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Design for a Cabinet in the "Boulle" Style
Pagny, French
furniture, drawing — brush and black ink, wash, yellow gouache, brown watercolor, graphite on heavy white paper · 1856
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Center table
F. Barbedienne Foundry, French
furniture, decorative arts, center table — bronze, enamel, gold · 1855
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Étagère
Julius Dessoir, active NY
furniture, decorative arts, étagère — rosewood, maple, glass mirror, brass · 1855
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Hair Comb
India
Vulcanite (India rubber and sulfur) · 1846
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Side chair
L.N. Cottingham
furniture, decorative arts, side chair — oak · 1844
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Pieced quilt (Pinwheel)
Caroline Miller
furnishing fabric and white cotton · 1840
Smithsonian American Art Museum
"Bergère" (Style Louix XV), no. 1, in Le Garde-Meuble (The Storehouse)
Désiré Guilmard, French
furniture, album page — hand-colored lithograph on cream laid paper · 1839
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Fauteuil Siamois, "Collection de Sieges," no. 60, in La Garde-Meuble (The Storehouse)
Désiré Guilmard, French
furniture, album page — hand-colored lithograph on cream laid paper · 1839
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
"Chaises de fantaisie," no. 8, in Le Garde-Meuble (The Storehouse)
Désiré Guilmard, French
furniture, album page — hand-colored lithograph on cream laid paper · 1839
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Desel, Pieced Bedcover (Honeycomb)
Mary Magych (?) Desel, active ca. 1845
chintz, furnishing fabric and white cotton; unquilted · 1825
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Armchair with slip seat
John Hewitt, American
furniture, decorative arts, armchair with slip seat — turned joined mahogany-veneered oak, horse hair upholstery (probably replaced) · 1820
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Side chair and slip seat
John Hewitt, American
furniture, decorative arts, side chair and slip seat — mahogany,poplar,horse hair · 1820
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Side Chair
John Hewitt, American
furniture, decorative arts, side chair — wood (mahogany), wood (poplar), horse hair (seat) · 1820
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Chair
John Hewitt, American
furniture, decorative arts, chair — wood (mahogany), wood (poplar), horse hair · 1820
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Chair
John Hewitt, American
furniture, decorative arts, chair — wood (mahogany and poplar), horse hair · 1820
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Altar Tablet with the Arms of Pope Pius VII
Luigi Righetti, Italian
furniture, drawing — pen and black ink, brush and gray, brown, yellow wash, over graphite, ruled border in brush and black ink on light blue laid paper · 1820
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Altar Tablet with the Arms of Pope Pius VII
Luigi Righetti, Italian
furniture, drawing — pen and black ink, brush and gray, brown, yellow wash, over graphite on white laid paper · 1820
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Design for an Altar Tablet
Luigi Righetti, Italian
furniture, drawing — brush and sepia wash, watercolor, pen and ink, graphite on paper · 1820
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Side chair
John Hewitt, American
furniture, decorative arts, side chair — mahogany, poplar, horse hair · 1820
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Design for a Reliquary
Luigi Righetti, Italian
furniture, drawing — pen and ink, brush and gray watercolor, graphite on paper · 1812
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum