Since this is a fairly large topic, I’m going to arbitrarily cut this off at 100 links on the subject. I’ll include particularly interesting examples, rather than every single chair with a visible cushion.

This linkspage doesn’t include pillows or pillowberes used on beds; for that, see the beds linkspage. Lacemakers’ pillows can be found on the lacemakers linkspage. Book-cushions may be done as a separate linkspage at some point, too, but I haven’t started that (yet).

• A 14th-15th century embroidered cushion from Westphalia, also discussed in A Stitch Out of Time
• Madonna of Humility by Giovanni di Paolo, c. 1435
• Virgin and Child in an Interior by Robert Campin, c. 1435
• Detail from the center panel of the Annunciation Triptych by Rogier van der Weyden, c. 1440
• Madonna of Humility by Sassetta, 1440s
• Madonna of Humility by Giovanni di Paolo, c. 1442
• The Magdalene Reading by Rogier van der Weyden, c. 1445
• Madonna of Humility with Two Musician Angels by Zanobi Strozzi, 1448-1450
• Madonna and Child by Benozzo Gozzoli, 1450
• Aristotle teaches Alexander, History of Alexander (BNF Fr. 9342, fol. 7v), mid-15th century
• Madonna of Humility, c. 1450-1470
• Virgin and Child enthroned, book of hours (Rawl. liturg. e. 20, fol. 19r), third quarter of the 15th century; note the lacing (?) along the side
• The death of Clitus, History of Alexander the Great (BNF Fr. 20311, fol. 214v), third quarter of the 15th century
• Anthony Abbot the Great, book of hours (PML M.282, fol. 127v), c. 1460
• The Lover and the Friend, Le Roman de la Rose (Douce 364, fol. 25v), c. 1460-1470
• The Virgin and Child by Dirk Bouts, c. 1465
• Scribal apprenticeship, Facta et dicta memorabilia (BNF Fr. 287, fol. 1), second part of the 15th century
• Virgin and Child with a parrot by Martin Schongauer, c. 1470-1473; interesting details of the surface textile and the side lacing closure
• Christ appearing to the Virgin, late 15th century
• Fols. 7v, 10v, 11, 115, and 163, The knight Cifar (BNF Esp. 36), fourth quarter of the 15th century
• Annunciation, 1484
• Bathsheba by Hans Memling, 1485 (see the cushion on chair on the center left of the painting)
• The Holy Kinship, book of hours (PML M.175, fol. 17v), c. 1500
• Madonna of the Green Cushion by Andrea Solari, c. 1507
• Cushion cover with appliquéd design made in London, c. 1550-1600
• Portrait of Sir Anthony Mildmay by Nicholas Hilliard, 1585