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Museum object · Furnishings, Housewares, and Décor

Floral velvet upholstered armchair from Mae's Millinery Shop

1941-1994

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

An armchair upholstered in velvet with a wooden frame. The chair back is short, with a scalloped upper edge and a carved feather design. The feather motif is repeated on the arm frons and the back sides of the front legs. The back, seat, and arms are all upholstered in cream velvet with a large-scale burgundy floral vine pattern. There are squared side stretchers and one stretcher behind the front legs.

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Catalog reference: 2010.6.185

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