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Chair of Partially Gilded Walnut
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Chair of partly gilded walnut, with front and back rails placed in a splayed position. The front rail shows, among other things, in low relief a devil's mask, flanked by S-volutes, ending in beast's claws with acanthus leaves. The back has the shape of an inverted isosceles triangle, with two panels decorated with leafy vines. At the corners stand female figures as caryatids, whose lower body ends in acanthus leaves and volutes. Topped by a fretted mount with a child's head and volutes.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineStoel van gedeeltelijk verguld notenhout. 1550 - 1600. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.