Gondola chair from the Salon d’Argent of the Elysée Palace

Chime Stone (1716)
China, Qing dynasty
Jade with incised and gilded decoration
11 1/8 × 19 3/4 × 1 in. (28.3 × 50.2 × 2.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Major Louis Livingston Seaman, 1903 (03.15.1). Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
From the exhibition: Design by the Book: Chinese Ritual Objects and the Sanli Tu

Gondola chair from the Salon d’Argent of the Elysée Palace (1805)
Jacob-Desmalter, after Charles Percier
Carved and silver gilt wood

Mobilier national, GME 18590

From the exhibition: Charles Percier: Architecture and Design in an Age of Revolutions

Chatham Square (1853-55)
Unknown
United States of America
Daguerreotype
3 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. (8.9 x 12.2 cm)

From the exhibition:

Visualizing 19th-Century New York