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Folding chair

about 1500
Object PlaceItaly
Medium/TechniqueWood: walnut; leather
Dimensions91.44 cm (36 in.)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Eugene L. Garbáty
Accession number60.178
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsFurniture
Collections
ProvenanceDr. Albert Figdor (b. 1843 - d. 1927), Vienna; September 29-30, 1930, posthumous Figdor sale, Cassirer, Berlin, lot 637, sold for M 7,500 to Eugene L. Garbáty (b. 1880 - d. 1966), Schloss Alt-Döbern, Niederlausitz (Germany), New York, and East Norwalk, CT [see note 1]; 1960, gift of Mrs. Eugene L. Garbáty to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 10, 1960)

NOTES:
[1] Garbáty emigrated from Berlin to New York between 1938 and 1939, bringing much of his art collection with him.
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