Chair for a Woman

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This low, wooden chair, with its straight back, legs carved in the form of a lion's legs, and mesh seat, is characteristic of chairs used by women in Egyptian wall paintings of banquet scenes. The chair is held together with pegs and dowels; the angle braces are carved from forked branches. The central slat in the back and a few minor repairs are modern, and the mesh seat has been restored following indications provided by remnants. A similar chair (36.3.152) was found during the Museum's excavation of the tomb of Hatnefer, mother of Senenmut.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.

Metropolitan Museum of Art