Design for furniture, ca. 1892–1920, Made in New York, United States, American, Pen and brown ink, and graphite on tracing paper, Overall: 9 1/16 x 17 9/16 in. (23 x 44.6 cm), Drawings, Possibly Tiffany Glass Company (1885–92), Possibly Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company (American, 1892–1902), Possibly Tiffany Studios (1902–32), The chair and couch depicted in this drawing are in the style of seventeenth-century English seating furniture that colonists imported to the Americas in matching sets. Placed in the reception hall of a Gilded Age private home or gentleman's social club, these imposing pieces of furniture would have conveyed a sense of Old World gravitas
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Design, furniture, ca, 1892–1920, New York, United States, American, Pen, brown ink, graphite, tracing paper, Overall, 9 1/16 x 17 9/16, 23 44.6 cm, Drawings, possibly, Tiffany Glass Company, 1885–92, and Decorating, 1892–1902, Studios, 1902–32, chair, couch depicted, drawing, style, seventeenth-century English, seating, colonists imported, Americas, matching sets, Placed, reception hall, Gilded Age, private, home, gentleman, social club, imposing pieces, conveyed, sense, Old World, gravitas
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