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Coronation chair of England in Westminster Abbey.

Coronation chair of England

Coronation chair of England in Westminster Abbey.

Sedan chair, 1755

Sedan chair, 1755

Sedan chair, 1755

Fox wearing a hat, jacket, and boots tells Father Goat a strange story

Fox

Fox wearing a hat, jacket, and boots tells Father Goat a strange story

Girl playing with doll on chair.

Girl playing with doll

Girl playing with doll on chair.

Boy and girl playing with doll

Children playing with doll

Boy and girl playing with doll

Girl dusting chair in silhouette.

Girl dusting chair

Girl dusting chair in silhouette.

Boy and girl reading.

Children Reading

Boy and girl reading.

Lazy man slouched in chair.

Lazy man

Lazy man slouched in chair.

Two women; one sitting.

Two women

Two women; one sitting.

Boy reading at table.

Boy Reading

Boy reading at table.

Young girl with head on fancy chair.

Girl

Young girl with head on fancy chair.

Table and chair by window.

Table and Chair

Table and chair by window.

Table and chair by fireplace.

Table and Chair

Table and chair by fireplace.

Man sitting at a table by the fireplace.

Man

Man sitting at a table by the fireplace.

The Chair of St. Augustine at Canterbury Cathedral.

The Chair of St. Augustine

The Chair of St. Augustine at Canterbury Cathedral.

Knight wearing chair armor.

Chain armor

Knight wearing chair armor.

"Early to bed, early to rise, Is the way to be healthy, wealthy, and wise."

Early to Bed

"Early to bed, early to rise, Is the way to be healthy, wealthy, and wise."

The Lilliputian Emperor at his hurting childs side during dinner.

Emperor with Crying Child

The Lilliputian Emperor at his hurting childs side during dinner.

A giant in Brobdingnag with her baby. The baby trying to stick Gulliver in his mouth.

Mother with Her Baby

A giant in Brobdingnag with her baby. The baby trying to stick Gulliver in his mouth.

Gulliver sitting in a chair, having a conversation with the King of Brobdingnag.

Gulliver and the King

Gulliver sitting in a chair, having a conversation with the King of Brobdingnag.

Ancient chair.

Ancient Chair

Ancient chair.

"Speaker's desk and Winslow's chair. This desk is made of ash. The semicircular front is about three feet in diameter. The chair, which belonged to Governor Winslow, is of English oak. It was made in 1614."—Lossing, 1851

Speaker's Desk and Winslow's Chair

"Speaker's desk and Winslow's chair. This desk is made of ash. The semicircular front is about three…

"Washington's head-quarters. The house occupied by Washington while the army was at White Plains is yet standing. It is a frame building, on the east side of the road, about two miles above the village. This view is from the road, looking northeast. When I last visited it (1851), Miss Jemima Miller, a maiden ninety-three yeras of age, and her sister, a few years her junior, were living therein, the home of their childhood. A chair and table, used by the chief, is carefully preserved by the family, and a register for the names of the numerous visitors is kept. This house was in the deep solitude of the forests, among the hills, when Washington was there; now the heights and the plain near by smile with cultivation."—Lossing, 1851

Washington's Head-Quarters

"Washington's head-quarters. The house occupied by Washington while the army was at White Plains is…

"A Ducking Stool is a chair in which scolding and vixenish wives were formerly securely fastened, to receive the punishment of being ducked in the water."—(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)

Ducking Stool

"A Ducking Stool is a chair in which scolding and vixenish wives were formerly securely fastened, to…

A group of women, with a lyre and wreath.

Sappho

A group of women, with a lyre and wreath.

"A seat or chair, was more particularly applied to a soft seat used by women, whereas sella signified a seat common to both sexes. The cathedrae were, no doubt, of various forms and sizes; but they usually appear to have had backs to them. On the cathedra in the annexed cut, is seated a bride, who is being fanned by a female slave with a fan made of peacock's feathers. Women were also accustomed to be carried abroad in these cathedrae instead of in lecticae, which practice was sometimes adopted by effeminate persons of the other sex. The word cathedra was also applied to the chair or pulpit from which lectures were read." — Smith, 1873

Cathedra

"A seat or chair, was more particularly applied to a soft seat used by women, whereas sella signified…

A man relaxing in his chair.

Relaxing

A man relaxing in his chair.

Boy sitting in a chair.

Boy

Boy sitting in a chair.

A girl reading in a chair by a bookcase.

Girl Reading

A girl reading in a chair by a bookcase.

"Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, where have you been?" "I've been to London to look at the queen." "Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, what did you there?" "I frightened a little mouse under the chair."

Pussy-Cat

"Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, where have you been?" "I've been to London to look at the queen." "Pussy-cat,…

"Sella, the general term for a seat or chair of any description. Sella Curulis, the chair of state. Curulis is derived by the ancient writers from currus, but it more probably contains the same root as curia. The sella curulis is said to have been used at Rome from a very remote period as an emblem of kingly power, having been imported, along with various other insignia of royalty, from Etruria. Under the republic the right of sitting upon this chair belonged to the consuls, praetors, curule aediles, and censors; to the flamen dialis; to the dictator, and to those whom he deputed to act under himself, as the magister equitum, since he might be said to comprehend all magistracies within himself. After the downfall of the constitution, it was assigned to the emperors also, or to their statues in their absence." — Smith, 1873

Sella

"Sella, the general term for a seat or chair of any description. Sella Curulis, the chair of state.…

"Sella, the general term for a seat or chair of any description. Sella Curulis, the chair of state. Curulis is derived by the ancient writers from currus, but it more probably contains the same root as curia. The sella curulis is said to have been used at Rome from a very remote period as an emblem of kingly power, having been imported, along with various other insignia of royalty, from Etruria. Under the republic the right of sitting upon this chair belonged to the consuls, praetors, curule aediles, and censors; to the flamen dialis; to the dictator, and to those whom he deputed to act under himself, as the magister equitum, since he might be said to comprehend all magistracies within himself. After the downfall of the constitution, it was assigned to the emperors also, or to their statues in their absence." — Smith, 1873

Sella

"Sella, the general term for a seat or chair of any description. Sella Curulis, the chair of state.…

"Sella, the general term for a seat or chair of any description. Sella Curulis, the chair of state. Curulis is derived by the ancient writers from currus, but it more probably contains the same root as curia. The sella curulis is said to have been used at Rome from a very remote period as an emblem of kingly power, having been imported, along with various other insignia of royalty, from Etruria. Under the republic the right of sitting upon this chair belonged to the consuls, praetors, curule aediles, and censors; to the flamen dialis; to the dictator, and to those whom he deputed to act under himself, as the magister equitum, since he might be said to comprehend all magistracies within himself. After the downfall of the constitution, it was assigned to the emperors also, or to their statues in their absence." — Smith, 1873

Sella

"Sella, the general term for a seat or chair of any description. Sella Curulis, the chair of state.…

"Sella, the general term for a seat or chair of any description. Sella Curulis, the chair of state. Curulis is derived by the ancient writers from currus, but it more probably contains the same root as curia. The sella curulis is said to have been used at Rome from a very remote period as an emblem of kingly power, having been imported, along with various other insignia of royalty, from Etruria. Under the republic the right of sitting upon this chair belonged to the consuls, praetors, curule aediles, and censors; to the flamen dialis; to the dictator, and to those whom he deputed to act under himself, as the magister equitum, since he might be said to comprehend all magistracies within himself. After the downfall of the constitution, it was assigned to the emperors also, or to their statues in their absence." — Smith, 1873

Sella

"Sella, the general term for a seat or chair of any description. Sella Curulis, the chair of state.…

A chair, one of the Pilgrim relics

Chair

A chair, one of the Pilgrim relics

A lady sitting on a chair, fanning herself.

Lady

A lady sitting on a chair, fanning herself.

A girl sitting in a chair

Girl

A girl sitting in a chair

"Thrones, a throne, is a Greek word, for which the proper Latin term is Solium. This did not differ from a chair except in being higher, larger, and in all respects more magnificent. On account of its elevation it was always necessarily accompanied by a footstool. The accompanying cut shows two gilded thrones with cushions and drapery, intended to be the thrones of Mars and Venus, which is expressed by the helmet on the one and the dove on the other." &mdash Smith; 1873

Thrones

"Thrones, a throne, is a Greek word, for which the proper Latin term is Solium. This did not differ…

"The following wood-cut from a fictile vase in the Museo Borbonico at Naples, represents Juno seated on a splendid throne, which is elevated on a basement. She holds in her left hand a sceptre, and in her right the apple, which Mercury is about to convey to Paris with a view to the celebrated contest for beauty on Mount Ida. Mercury is distinguished by his talaria, his caduceus, and his petasus thrown behind his back, and hanging b a string. On the right side of the throne is the representation of a tigress or panther." &mdash Smith; 1873

Thrones

"The following wood-cut from a fictile vase in the Museo Borbonico at Naples, represents Juno seated…

"The Egyptian chairs of which we have a great variety of representations, were not inferior in elegance to any thing of the kind at the present day." — Goodrich, 1844

Egyptian chair

"The Egyptian chairs of which we have a great variety of representations, were not inferior in elegance…

"Workman drilling a hole in the seat of a chair." — Goodrich, 1844

Egyptian Chairmaker

"Workman drilling a hole in the seat of a chair." — Goodrich, 1844

An Egyptian bow and drill.

Egyptian Bow and Drill

An Egyptian bow and drill.

"Usually kept as a family seat, and occupied by the master and mistress of the house, though occaisionally offered, as a special honor, to the guests." — Goodrich, 1844

Egyptian Double Chair

"Usually kept as a family seat, and occupied by the master and mistress of the house, though occaisionally…

"From the tomb of Ramses the Third." — Goodrich, 1844

Egyptian Ottoman

"From the tomb of Ramses the Third." — Goodrich, 1844

A movable seat with a back, for one person.

Chair

A movable seat with a back, for one person.

A portable chair or covered vehicle for carrying a single person.

Sedan

A portable chair or covered vehicle for carrying a single person.

A porch covered with flowers and vines overlooking a garden.

Garden

A porch covered with flowers and vines overlooking a garden.

A woman spinning.

Spinning

A woman spinning.

A grandmother sitting in a chair.

Grandmother

A grandmother sitting in a chair.

Elizabethian chair from Flaxton Hall, Suffolk.

Elizabethian Chair

Elizabethian chair from Flaxton Hall, Suffolk.

Ariosta's Chair

Ariosto's Chair

Ariosta's Chair

A chair from Colonial times.

Chair

A chair from Colonial times.

Governor Carver's chair from the Pilgrims.

Carver's Chair

Governor Carver's chair from the Pilgrims.

An ornate chair used for sitting.

Egyptian Chair

An ornate chair used for sitting.

An enclosed windowed chair suitable for a single occupant or more luxurious furniture, not always enclosed, for the passender to sit or lie on, with an upholstered interior, which was carrier by at least two porters.

Palanquin

An enclosed windowed chair suitable for a single occupant or more luxurious furniture, not always enclosed,…

In the Roman Republic, and later the Empire, the curule seat was the chair upon which senior magistrates were entitled to sit, including dictators, masters of the horse, consuls, praetors, censors, and the curule aediles. he curule chair was traditionally made of or veneered with ivory, with curved legs forming a wide X; it had no back, and low arms. The chair could be folded, and thus an easily transportable seat, originally for magisterial and promagisterial commanders in the field, developed a hieratic significance, expressed in fictive curule seats on funerary monuments, a symbol of power which was never entirely lost in post-Roman European tradition. Sixth-century consular ivory diptychs of Orestes and of Constantinus each depict the consul seated on an elaborate curule seat with crossed animal legs.

Curule Chair

In the Roman Republic, and later the Empire, the curule seat was the chair upon which senior magistrates…

This illustration shows an ornamental chair.

Ornamental Chair

This illustration shows an ornamental chair.

Elder Brewster's Chair. William Brewster was one a pilgrim who rode the Mayflower in 1620.

Brewster's Chair

Elder Brewster's Chair. William Brewster was one a pilgrim who rode the Mayflower in 1620.

A chair belonging to Governor Carver.

Carver's Chair

A chair belonging to Governor Carver.

A large armed rocking chair.

Large Arm Rocker

A large armed rocking chair.