Doll’s Chair
- Date
- designed 1885–86, made c.1890
- Material
- Beech and cane
- Classification
- Furniture, recreational objects
- Collection
- Decorative Arts and Design
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 122
- Dimensions
- 12 3/4 x 7 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. (32.4 x 18.4 x 23.5 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Jane and Warren Shapleigh
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 30:2001
Provenance
- 2001
Jane Wells Smith, by inheritance; Jane S. Shapleigh, St. Louis, MO, by inheritance [1]
2001 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, given by Jane S. Shapleigh [2]
Notes:
This Chair is part of a set of doll's furniture acquired by the Museum. Each of the pieces in the set (29:2001 - 33:2001) share the same provenance.
[1] According to a letter from Jane S. Shapleigh dated December 2000, the set of doll furniture was given to Mrs. Shapleigh by her mother, Jane Wells Smith; the set had been in the collection of the family for four generations, beginning in the 1890s when Jane S. Shapleigh's great-grandmother acquired it as a child [SLAM document files].
[2] Deed of Gift dated January 9, 2001 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, March 1, 2001.
Jane Wells Smith, by inheritance; Jane S. Shapleigh, St. Louis, MO, by inheritance [1]
2001 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, given by Jane S. Shapleigh [2]
Notes:
This Chair is part of a set of doll's furniture acquired by the Museum. Each of the pieces in the set (29:2001 - 33:2001) share the same provenance.
[1] According to a letter from Jane S. Shapleigh dated December 2000, the set of doll furniture was given to Mrs. Shapleigh by her mother, Jane Wells Smith; the set had been in the collection of the family for four generations, beginning in the 1890s when Jane S. Shapleigh's great-grandmother acquired it as a child [SLAM document files].
[2] Deed of Gift dated January 9, 2001 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, March 1, 2001.
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