Dante chair

Dante chair
Italian Furniture.
a chair of the Renaissance having two transverse pairs of curved legs crossing beneath the seat and rising to support the arms and back. Also called Dantesca chair /dan tes"keuh, dahn tes"kah/. Cf. Savonarola chair.
[named after DANTE]

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