Chairs

Following are chairs from museum collections, and depictions of a few specific types of chairs. I've attempted to arrange them by type, although the names for each type may be neither appropriate nor accurate; they're the names I've heard for these sorts of chairs, but I am not an authority on these sorts of things.

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• Armchair, 15th century
• Armchair, 15th century
• Late Gothic box-chair, 15th century
• Chair, made in France or Italy in the late 15th century
• Zitkist (chair-chest), c. 1500
• Armchair, c. 1500
• Armchair, c. 1540
• Armchair, Scotland, c. 1540

• Caquetoire with detail from chair-back, second half of the 16th century
• Armchair, second half of the 16th century
• Armchair, second half of the 16th century
• Pivoting chair, second half of the 16th century
• Pivoting chair, second half of the 16th century
• Armchair, France, c. 1560 (front view, side view)
• Armchair, c. 1560-1570
• Caquetoire, end of the 16th century

• Boccaccio and Petrarch, De casibus (BNF Fr. 236, fol. 134v), first half of the 15th century
• Chair, 15th century Spain (also here)
• Folding chair, 15th century southern Germany
• A couple lies in bed, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens (British Library Harley 4373, fol. 88v), c. 1460-1487
• Laodamia paints the portrait, Ovid's Heroides (BNF Fr. 874, fol. 105), beginning of the 16th century
• Folding chair with intarsia, 16th century Italy
• Two chairs, Alpine, c. 1501-1515 (also 3/4 view, front view, back view)
• "Scissor-chair" made in southern Germany, c. 1501-1515
• Folding chair, northern Italian (?), c. 1525-1550
• Portrait of a woman, mid-16th century
• The "scissor-chair" of the Prince-Elector Ottheinrich at Neuburg Castle, 1559
• Two folding-chairs from the 16th or 17th centuries
• Supper at Emmaus by Caravaggio, 1601-1602
• Folding chair, c. 1620-1650

• Glastonbury chairs around the UK, and the original Glastonbury chair
• Bathsheba by Hans Memling, 1485
• Folding chair (sedia smontabile), late 15th century

• "Scissor-chair" made in 15th century Switzerland
• "Scissor-chair" made in 15th century Switzerland
• Chair, c. 1496-1505
• "Scissor-chair" made in Italy c. 1500
• Folding armchair, early 16th century Italy
• Folding chair, 16th century
• "Scissor-chair" made in southern Germany, 16th century
• Portrait of Galezzo di Sanvitale at the age of 28 years by Parmigiano, 1524
• Folding armchair made in Italy c. 1550
• Chair, 2nd half of the 16th century
• Two "scissor-chairs" from southern Germany, one from the 16th century and one c. 1600

• Sgabello with the coat of arms of Filippo Strozzi, Florence, c. 1489-1491
• Chair, c. 1500
• Carved chair with the heraldry of Mailand, early 16th century Italy
• Sgabello, made in Tuscany c. 1500-1550
• Sgabello, 16th century
• Chair, northern Italy, second half of the 16th century (also here)
• Sgabello, made in France in the 16th century
• Two sgabelli, Italy, c. 1575-1600
• Two chairs, Sgabello type, late 16th century Italy
• Chair carved by Giovanni Maria Nosseni, c. 1580 (back view, back detail)
• Chair, southern Tyrol, c. 1580-1590
• Chair, Venice, c. 1580-1600
• Chair carved by Giovanni Maria Nosseni, c. 1586-1591
• Chair, Dresden, c. 1590 (back view, back detail)
• Chair, southern Germany, end of the 16th century
• Three Italian sgabelli, 16th-17th centuries
• Chair, southern Tyrol, c. 1600-1613
• Armchair, England, c. 1625