About the Artwork
Arm Chair
ca. 1790
George Seddon
1727-1801
English
Unknown
Painted satinwood
Overall: 37 7/8 × 21 3/4 × 19 3/8 inches (96.2 × 55.2 × 49.2 cm)
Furniture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Benson Ford Fund, with matching funds from Founders Junior Council
1984.4.2
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Provenance
(Hotspur Ltd.)
1984-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Litchfield, Frederick. "Satinwood Furniture." The Connoisseur 46 (1916): p. 185f.
Heal, Sir Ambrose. The London Furniture Makers. London, 1953, p. 161.
Edwards, Ralph and Margaret Jourdain. Georgian Cabinet-Makers. London, 1944, p. 79f, pls. 172-176.
Coleridge, Anthony. Chippendale Furniture. London, 1968, pp. 152-154.
Fastnedge, Ralph. Sheraton Furniture. New York, 1962, pp. 33-34, 42-43.
Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report (1984): p. 39 (fig. 23).
"La Chronique des Arts, Principales Acquisitions des Musees en 1984." Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 1394 (March 1985): Supplement, pl. 225.
Howell, C.R. and C. Streeter. "London Legs, English furniture in American collections." Art & Auction XI, no. 7 (February 1989): p. 131 (fig. 5).
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attributed to George Seddon, Arm Chair, ca. 1790, painted satinwood. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Benson Ford Fund, with matching funds from Founders Junior Council, 1984.4.2.
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