FurnitureBritish, English20th century

Chaise Longue

1936

Artists

Marcel BreuerArtist

Classification

Furniture

Medium

Bent laminated birch veneers, bent plywood

Culture

British, English

Century

20th century

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Department

Busch-Reisinger Museum

Dimensions

sight: 77.5 x 130 x 61.5 cm (30 1/2 x 51 3/16 x 24 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Galerie Ulrich Fiedler, Cologne, unknown, sale to BRM, 1999.

Related Artworks

Furniture

Cesca Chair

Marcel Breuer, 1928 (original design)

Wood, tubular steel and caning

20th centuryAmerican

Furniture

Table Top with Eight Fantastic Creatures Striding Around a Geometric Design in the Central Field and with Geometric Designs in the Borders

Unknown Artist, probably 1st century CE

Red-lacquer-coated wood, the designs painted in black, green, and ochre lacquers on the red-lacquer ground; with a two-character inscription reading "Li Wang" inscribed in "lishu" (clerical script) on the underside in raw lacquer, the two-character inscription probably meaning "[Good] luck [to] Wang." Probably made in Sichuan province; probably recovered at Lelang (also spelled Lo-lang; Korean, Naknang), near T'o-sông-ni, southwest of P'yôngyang, Korea.

1st century CEChinese

Furniture

Circular Table with Decoration of a Pheasant Standing on a Rock amid Bamboo and Blossoming Plants

Unknown Artist, late 17th-early 18th century

Enameled porcelain, "famille verte" type: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze polychrome enamels

17th-18th centuryChinese

Furniture

Cassone

Unidentified Artist, 15th century

Wood

15th centuryItalian

Furniture

Cabriole Leg for a Lacquered Table Top (one of two)

Unknown Artist, probably 1st century CE

Gilt bronze. Probably made in Sichuan province; probably recovered at Lelang (also spelled Lo-lang; Korean, Naknang), near T'o-sông-ni, southwest of P'yôngyang, Korea.

1st century CEChinese