Chinese Child's Side Chair

Scroll-tipped back, wide seat and short stout legs.

This child’s side chair is from Shanxi Province, China, and dates to the mid 19th century. It is lacquered elm wood. Tibetans were traditionally semi-nomadic and owned few personal furnishings, so most Tibetan furniture stood in monasteries, and some of it was carted over the Himalayas to India as monasteries were destroyed. Dark wooden chair with a straight top rail finished in curled ends above a single central splat. The seat is a framed panel with a mottled surface, and the apron below carries faint carving. Legs are thick and straight. It is 17 inches long, 15 deep and 28 high.

A modest chair with a sturdy spine.