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Historical Archive: Chairs

See also thrones and stools in the index of objects represented.


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Standard of Ur, lapis lazuli, shell, and red limestone, c. 2600-2400 BCE, BM ME 121201. This work has its own page.
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harp inlay, shell and lapis, Ur c.2550-2450 BCE, Penn 30-12-484. For full work see Penn.
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Virgin and Child, black glass intaglio, 1st-6th c., Taubman, Bonner 330
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painted sarcophagus from Crimea, late 1st/early 2nd c., Hermitage П.1899-81, which has its own page
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sarcophagus of Eugami and Cyriaca, from S. Vittore, Ravenna, marble, late 2nd-early 3rd c., Ravenna Museo Nazionale
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oculist: sarcophagus of Eugami and Cyriaca, from S. Vittore, Ravenna, marble, late 2nd-early 3rd c., Ravenna Museo Nazionale
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sarcophagus of Eugami and Cyriaca, from S. Vittore, Ravenna, marble, late 2nd-early 3rd c., Ravenna Museo Nazionale
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sarcophagus of Eugami and Cyriaca, from S. Vittore, Ravenna, marble, late 2nd-early 3rd c., Ravenna Museo Nazionale
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Projecta Casket, silver and gold, c.380, BM 1866,1229.1, which has its own page
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Bacchus and Ariadne, ivory pyxis, 5th-6th c., Trier? KHM X41, which has its own page
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chairs or thrones flanking altar, Ravenna, Orthodox baptistery, c.451-73. This work has its own pages with many chairs.
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Annunciation, Ordeal, Flight; ivory, 6th c. eastern Mediterranean (Syria?), Louvre OA 11149. Part of same object as Hermitage Visitation/Annunciation to Anna, for which see Russia.
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Harrach diptych, ivory with glass c.800, Schn 1012, which has its own page with more chairs or thrones
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Resurrection/Nativity, ivory late 9th-early 10th c., Vat 64477
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pendant reliquary, Constantinople 10th-11th c., BM AF.354, which has its own page
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Byzantine Last Judgment ivory, 11th c., V&A A.24-1926. This work has its own page.
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Sainte Chasse, 12th c. Byzantine ivory, Sens CT 143, which has its own page with another chair (Potiphar)
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Lisbjerg Altar frontal/retable/arch c.1135-50, gilded copper, NMD D287. This work has its own page.
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Fiddler, limestone, Cologne late 12th-early 13th c., Schn K163. For other views see Schn.
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birth and naming of John the Baptist (heavily restored), mosaic c.1240-1310, Baptistery of St. John, Florence. This work has its own pages.
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Virgin and Child base, 1334, Sens cathedral. This object has its own page.
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plenary of Otto the Mild, 1339 reusing chessboard 1300-30, KGM W 32, which has its own page
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Yakov Fedosov 1359, Lyudogoshch cross, wood, which has its own page with more chairs, Novgorod AM
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Apostles' bench: Giovanni di Paolo 1460-65, Last Judgment, SPN inv. 172, which has its own page
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St. Barbara reliquary pendant, France or Netherlands 1495-1505, gold and enamel, AIC 1938.1179
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bench: Lady and the Unicorn, wool/silk tapestry, c.1500, Cluny. For more panels and details see Cluny with another bench.
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Iphigenia, Orestes, and Pylades in Tauris or Ulysses and Diomedes seizing Palladion, prob. c.1500-50, sardonyx cameo in 16th-c. gold and enamel mount, Florence MA 14468
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St. Luke painting Virgin fr. church St. Mary Magdalene Wrocław, limewood c.1506, Jakob Beinhart (fl. Wrocław 1483-1525), MNW Śr. 15. This work has its own page.
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Triptych of St. Stanislaus the Bishop from church in Pławno, painted and gilt limewood, Krakow c.1510-20, MNW Śr. 18. This work has its own page.
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Spinning/reading, wool/silk tapestry, c.1520, Cluny Cl. 2182. For scale and details see Cluny.
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Charles Guillot, Carmelite nuns in the Infirmary, oil on canvas 18th c., MAHSD
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billiards players, porcelain, central Europe early 19th c., Belgrade MAA 1230. For other views see Belgrade MAA.
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Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1866, Vespasian hearing of the taking of Jerusalem, oil on panel in original frame, UMMA 2004/2.143. This work has its own page.