• Maker: George Jacob Hunzinger, American, born Germany, 1835-1898
• Medium: Walnut
• Place Made: New York, New York, USA
• Dates: ca. 1869
• Dimensions: 28 1/4 x 20 3/4 x 23 in. (71.8 x 52.7 x 58.4 cm)
• Markings: impressed inside bottom proper right rear leg: “HUNZINGER N.Y. / PAT. MARCH 30 / 1869″
• Signature: no signature
• Inscriptions: no inscriptions
• Collections: Decorative Arts
• Museum Location:  This item is not on view
• Accession Number: 1989.74
• Credit Line: Gift of Miss Isabel Shultz, by exchange
• Rights Statement: Creative Commons-BY-NC
• Caption: George Jacob Hunzinger (American, born Germany, 1835-1898). Side Chair, ca. 1869. Walnut, 28 1/4 x 20 3/4 x 23 in. (71.8 x 52.7 x 58.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Miss Isabel Shultz, by exchange, 1989.74. Creative Commons-BY-NC
• Image: overall, CUR.1989.74.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2010
• Catalogue Description: Walnut with incised orange painted decoration. A square seat with rolled back end upholstered in light blue silk damask (modern) trimmed with red, blue and beige silk and wool twisted cord (modern). Back consists of an upholstered roll with three buttons on top and four buttons on front, in the same damask and the same cord at ends. The roll supported on either end by a turned counter-clockwise scroll design with carved leaves in the interstices that terminate a diagonal member that is attached to side of seat frame and continues towards the front foot. Lower end of this diagonal terminates in an acorn whose narrow stem supports a rectangular section with three broad parallel-incised lines on front and side profiles. A turned ring and shaft above support a cube-block with applied turned buttons on top and side faces and then another acorn-like shape at seat height. Above this is another narrow cylindrical shaft with parallel-incised lines that is transposed to a flattened section that forms the scroll that supports the upholstered roll. Below the seat this diagonal member is attached to an arched member that intersects a larger arched member that supports the front corner of the seat from below and curves towards the back of the chair to form the rear foot terminating in a partially articulated scroll. The smaller arched member to which the diagonal member is attached curves downward and becomes the front square foot pad. A turned and incised vertical member extends from under the arched member that supports the front seat to the intersecting smaller member that becomes the front foot. At the point that this vertical member meets the smaller arched member near the front foot is a turned and incised stretcher. An identical stretcher joins the back arched legs where another vertical arches up and terminates in a turned scroll that supports the back of the seat from below. There is an incised conventionalized floral decoration on the large attached member.

collection credit:  Brooklyn Museum