Unidentified photographer / artist
1873
Padded posing chair - Bowdish Chair

Book illustration
Google Books
In "The Silver Sunbeam (Eighth edition)" by J. Towler (New York: E.& H.T. Anthony & Co., 1873), p.554, Fig.39
 
Figure 39 is the Bowdish Chair without rods and rest Perhaps the best and most suitable chair ever offered for photographic use.
 
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