Glastonbury chair
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Glastonbury chair is a nineteenth-century term for an earlier wooden chair, usually of oak, possibly based on a chair made for Richard Whiting, the last Abbot of Glastonbury, England. The Glastonbury
The original Glastonbury chair, in the Bishop's Palace, Wells
A reproduction chair, also in the Bishop's Palace, Wells
A similar British chair, oak, circa 1600, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
X-chair
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An X-chair is a chair with an X-shaped frame. It was known to have been used in Ancient Egypt, Rome, and Greece. The Christian faldstool is a type of X-chair.
Cross-framed chair in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
Reconstruction medieval faldstools, folded and unfolded
Rococo stool. Paris, France, late 1730s
Savonarola Chair MET cds37-80-18