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CC41 "Birchcraft" Armchair

(High Wycombe, England, founded in 1840)
about 1950
Medium/TechniqueWood, original wool upholstery
DimensionsOverall: 88.9 x 55.9 x 73.7 cm (35 x 22 x 29 in.)
Credit LineGift of Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf
Accession number2012.741.1
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsFurniture
Provenance1946, sold by the manufacturer to Irene Waller (b. 1921), London; 2012, sold by Mrs. Waller to Leslie Verrinder, London; April 2012, sold by Leslie Verrinder to Frederic Sharf, Chestnut Hill, MA; 2012, gift of Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 24, 2012)
William Birch & Company
about 1950
Group shot: 2008.78.1-2
Eero Saarinen
designed 1948; made about 1967
Group shot: 2008.78.1-2
Eero Saarinen
designed 1948; made about 1967
Donald Deskey
about 1928
Conservation Status: After reupholstering
Kilian Brothers
about 1870
Side chair
about 1860
Boston Furniture Company
about 1870
Boston Furniture Company
about 1870
Grecian couch (one of a pair)
Vose, Coates & Company
1817–1819
Vose, Coates & Company
1817–1819
Armchair
1695–1710
Edward J. Wormley
1958