A wooden parquetry chair, Spain or Egypt, circa 1900

of curving X-frame form with ivory-inlaid geometric floral designs divided by bands of wood strapwork

generally in good condition, seat panel has some minor damage near the middle rib. across the chair are minor perforations to the wood, though they are not indented. also some minor staining to the joints of the brackets, as viewed.
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Two sixteenth-century inlaid chairs of this form can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (see Otto Kurz's discussion on folding chairs and Qur'an stands in Richard Ettinghausen [Ed.], Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972, pp.299-314, and figs.9 & 10).