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Chair   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Royal Savonnerie Manufactory, Chaillot Workshops
Title
Chair
Description
These chairs belong to a suite that includes a settee (also in the CMA’s collection) and a tapestry made for a count and countess to mark their wedding in 1717. Furniture of this scale was usually placed against the wall in grand reception halls, more as a display of wealth than for use. Upholstered in Savonnerie tapestries, this suite was among the most treasured and expensive example anyone could own and typically reserved for royalty.

To add decorative and intellectual interest to the textiles, weavers incorporated symbols depicting various stories from the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine, published from 1668 to 1694 and largely adapted from Aesop and other early storytellers.
Date 1712
date QS:P571,+1712-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Carved wood, Savonnerie knotted-pile (symmertrical rug knot) upholstery; wool, hemp
Dimensions Overall: 121.9 x 70.5 x 55.3 cm (48 x 27 3/4 x 21 3/4 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q657415
Current location
Decorative Art and Design
Accession number
1947.183.4
Place of creation France, 18th century
Credit line John L. Severance Fund
Source/Photographer https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.183.4

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