Armchair. Culture: American. Dimensions: 37 x 27 1/2 x 27 1/2 in. (94 x 69.9 x 69.9 cm). Maker: Attributed to Pottier and Stymus Manufacturing Company (active ca. 1859-1910). Date: ca. 1870-75.The nineteenth-century taste for Egyptian subjects, which developed first in Europe and America in the wake of Napoleon's Egyptian campaign of 1798, achieved widespread popularity in America in the 1870s. Americans embraced the Egyptian style: Verdi's "Aïda", commissioned to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, had its first American performance in New York in 1873; the 1872 memorial to the Union dead in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts was a sphinx; and Egyptian products were deemed suitable for inclusion in the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876. While a number of New York cabinetmakers produced Egyptian revival furniture with motifs such as sphinx heads, animal feet, palmettes, and lotus leaves during the 1870s, the firm of Pottier and Stymus is most often a

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Armchair. Culture: American. Dimensions: 37 x 27 1/2 x 27 1/2 in. (94 x 69.9 x 69.9 cm). Maker: Attributed to Pottier and Stymus Manufacturing Company (active ca. 1859-1910). Date: ca. 1870-75.The nineteenth-century taste for Egyptian subjects, which developed first in Europe and America in the wake of Napoleon's Egyptian campaign of 1798, achieved widespread popularity in America in the 1870s. Americans embraced the Egyptian style: Verdi's "Aïda", commissioned to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, had its first American performance in New York in 1873; the 1872 memorial to the Union dead in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts was a sphinx; and Egyptian products were deemed suitable for inclusion in the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876. While a number of New York cabinetmakers produced Egyptian revival furniture with motifs such as sphinx heads, animal feet, palmettes, and lotus leaves during the 1870s, the firm of Pottier and Stymus is most often a

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