High-back chair (pair with 1975.1.1998)

Art Historical Context

This elegant high-back chair, part of a rare pair from the Robert Lehman Collection at Metropolitan Museum of Art, to the late 19th or early 20th century. Standing an impressive 124.8 cm tall, with a width of 63.6 cm and depth of 65, it exemplifies fine woodwork-furniture possibly originating from Northern Africa—perhaps Morocco—or Syria. Its uncertain cultural attribution highlights the rich trade networks that blended influences across the Islamic world during this period. Crafted from various hardwoods adorned with bone and ivory in, the chair showcases masterful marquetry techniques typic...