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Armchair
Also titled Armstoel
Kunsthandel E.J. van Wisselingh
c. 1905
- Medium
- ivory, Coromandel ebony, walnut (hardwood), parchment (animal material)
- Classification
- chair
- Dimensions
- height 98 cm x width 59.5 cm x depth 50 cm x weight 11 kg
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
The workshop of the Amsterdam interior decorator and fine art dealer Van Wisselingh & Co had a special department for producing batik, a resist-dyeing technique originally from Java. This technique was used for the ornamentation of the parchment seat and back of this chair. It was commissioned by Mr and Mrs Dentz van Schaick, whose monogram DvS graces its back.
