Armchair

1870–75

Attributed to Pottier and Stymus (American, active 1859–1888)
Ormolu mounts by Pierre E. Guerin (American, founded 1857)
New York

Status: On View, Gallery 176
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Pottier and Stymus
Title: Armchair
Place: New York City (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1870–1875
Medium: Rosewood with ash, juniper and burl maple veneer, ormolu mounts, and woven tapestry upholstery fabric
Inscriptions: Painted in black paint on crest rail, underneath upholstery: "3924. Ingersoll"
Dimensions: 98 × 64 × 58 cm (38 1/2 × 25 1/4 × 22 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Suzanne Waller Worthy Fund
Reference Number: 1970.39
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Antiques (May 1971), 684 (ill.).
Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture, (American Association for State and Local History, 1981), 44, no. 87.
Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture, 2nd ed., (American Association for State and Local History, 1989), 36 (ill.).
Jeanne Siegel, Victorian Soul Furniture (Paper Bird, 1990), ill.
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 235–237, no. 111.

Freemans Auction, Philadelphia; Peter Hill, Washington, DC, by 1970; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1970.

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