Sardinian 3-legged Chairs in Peasant Renaissance Style

Name/Title

Sardinian 3-legged Chairs in Peasant Renaissance Style

Entry/Object ID

HM-19. 1-2

Description

Three-legged chairs with irregular notched gnarled pattern cut out of wood. #1 - narrow carved back, #2 - with heart cut-out decoration at center 15-18c Italian in the peasant renaissance style. "The sgabello is a type of chair or stool with carved and often elaborately ornamented wood legs and back. The form originated in Renaissance Italy, and its popularity spread throughout Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries." (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/670538)

Collection

Furniture

Acquisition

Accession

19

Made/Created

Notes

Date: ca. 18th c.

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Stool

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Seating Furniture

Nomenclature Class

Furniture

Nomenclature Category

Category 02: Furnishings

General Notes

Note Type

1970ca Handwritten Inventory p(8) - Sicilian Room & Lower Round Dining Room

Note Type

1951 Tour Manual 016