Side chair (one of a set of fourteen)

Designer Robert Adam British, Scottish
 Supplied by Thomas Chippendale British

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 515

Thomas Chippendale executed this set of Neoclassical dining chairs for Goldsborough Hall in Yorkshire, which belonged to Daniel Lascelles, younger brother of Chippendale's longtime patron, Edwin Lascelles, 7th Baron Harewood, of nearby Harewood House. The chairs, originally a set of fifteen, represent one of Chippendale's most elegant designs: they have tapering backs with arched top rails, fan-shaped splats with a central patera encircled and flanked by pendent bellflower swags, and square, tapering legs decorated with pendent husks. He produced several sets of these chairs with minor variations, including one for Lansdowne House, London, from which the dining room is now preserved at The Met (32.12). The present set of mahogany chairs has been reupholstered, as it was originally, in red morocco leather.

Side chair (one of a set of fourteen), Robert Adam (British, Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1728–1792 London), Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, British

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1996.426.10

Side chair (one of a set of fourteen), Robert Adam (British, Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1728–1792 London), Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, British
Side chair (one of a set of fourteen), Robert Adam (British, Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1728–1792 London), Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, British
Side chair (one of a set of fourteen), Robert Adam (British, Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1728–1792 London), Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, British
Side chair (one of a set of fourteen), Robert Adam (British, Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1728–1792 London), Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, British
Side chair (one of a set of fourteen), Robert Adam (British, Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1728–1792 London), Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, British
Side chair (one of a set of fourteen), Robert Adam (British, Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1728–1792 London), Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, British
Side chair (one of a set of fourteen), Robert Adam (British, Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1728–1792 London), Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, British
Side chair (one of a set of fourteen), Robert Adam (British, Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1728–1792 London), Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, British
Side chair (one of a set of fourteen), Robert Adam (British, Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1728–1792 London), Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, British
Side chair (one of a set of fourteen), Robert Adam (British, Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1728–1792 London), Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, British
Side chair (one of a set of fourteen), Robert Adam (British, Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1728–1792 London), Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, British
Side chair (one of a set of fourteen), Robert Adam (British, Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1728–1792 London), Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, British
Side chair (one of a set of fourteen), Robert Adam (British, Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1728–1792 London), Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, British
Side chair (one of a set of fourteen), Robert Adam (British, Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1728–1792 London), Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, British
Side chair (one of a set of fourteen), Robert Adam (British, Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1728–1792 London), Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, British
Side chair (one of a set of fourteen), Robert Adam (British, Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1728–1792 London), Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, British
Side chair (one of a set of fourteen), Robert Adam (British, Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1728–1792 London), Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, British
Side chair (one of a set of fourteen), Robert Adam (British, Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1728–1792 London), Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, British
Side chair (one of a set of fourteen), Robert Adam (British, Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1728–1792 London), Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, British
Side chair (one of a set of fourteen), Robert Adam (British, Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1728–1792 London), Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, British
Side chair (one of a set of fourteen), Robert Adam (British, Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1728–1792 London), Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, British
Side chair (one of a set of fourteen), Robert Adam (British, Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1728–1792 London), Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, British
Side chair (one of a set of fourteen), Robert Adam (British, Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1728–1792 London), Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, British
Side chair (one of a set of fourteen), Robert Adam (British, Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1728–1792 London), Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, British
Side chair (one of a set of fourteen), Robert Adam (British, Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1728–1792 London), Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, British
Side chair (one of a set of fourteen), Robert Adam (British, Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1728–1792 London), Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, British
Side chair (one of a set of fourteen), Robert Adam (British, Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1728–1792 London), Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, British
Side chair (one of a set of fourteen), Robert Adam (British, Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1728–1792 London), Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, British

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