Folding Chair (Savanarola)

Alpine Region, Tyrol (Northern Italy or Southern Austria or Southern Germany or Switzerland)

16th century

  • Titles Folding Chair (Savanarola) (Descriptive)
  • Medium beechwood
  • Dimensions 31 1/2 × 25 5/8 × 25 in. (80 × 65.1 × 63.5 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1959.36
  • Work Type folding chair
  • Classification Furniture

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Portrait medallion in white jasper with black jasper dip on the front only and white relief depicting Dorothea, Lady Banks (1758-1828), wife of Sir Joseph Banks, to right, wearing a draped garment, her hair in rolls and tied with a wide hairband.
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Oval dark blue jasper plaque with white relief scene depicting Pygmalion creating the statue that is eventually brought to life by Aphrodite.