French Renaissance low-backed, upholstered
1570
France
W 24" × H 39" × D 18.5"
Stock # MARH0225
SOLD
French Renaissance low-backed, upholstered armchair. An emblematic example of a late sixteenth-century French chaire à bras. Related examples of this classic French Renaissance form of seating furniture are illustrated in Jacqueline Boccador, Le Mobiler Français du Moyen Age, a la Renaissance, pp. 291-192, figs, 236-237, 239.
Old refinish