Rocking Chair
Steam-bent beech, flat-packed and shipped by the crate from 1859. The deepest market on this page by a wide margin, and the easiest to date from its labels.
MakerMichael Thonet
Datec. 1881
OriginAustria
MediumBeech and caning
Dimensions109.3 × 61 × 115 cm (43 × 24 × 45 1/4 in.)
Classchair
RegisterObject
QuantityOne. There is never a second.
€ 321
How this figure was reached
16 priced lots of 2515 ended for this name; 133.25–321 EUR, median 210.
This is the market's number, not the dealer's ask — the top of what the name has realised in public. The dealer's own figure replaces it when the object is catalogued.
The public record
Auctionet, 2026-09-21 · 2,515 ended lots found
priced 16
unsold 4
sell-through 80%
confidence 0.55
basis hammer
in euro € 133–€ 321
Attribution
By
Documented as the maker's own work.
Attributed to
The scholarship points here; the documentation is incomplete.
Circle of
The workshop or immediate following, in the maker's lifetime.
Manner of
The style, by another hand, at any date.
After
A copy of a known work by this maker.
Unattributed
No maker of record. Most of the trade lives here.
This plate
Rocking Chair, Art Institute of Chicago, object 33053.
Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Samuel G. Rautbord Released as Public Domain (CC0);
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