This piece is from a large set of at least eight side chairs, four settees, four stools, and two side tables formerly attributed to James Moore (ca. 1670–1726) and said to have been made for Stowe, Buckinghamshire, a provenance now questioned.
Credit: Fletcher Fund, 1924
c. 1730-35
Gilded gesso on walnut; covered in eighteenth-century silk damask not original to the settee
104.1 x 171.5cm
24.136.1
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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