X-chair

X-chairs have been found in ancient Egyptian tombs, often featuring carvings in the shape of animals or animal-skin draperies.

[1] A type of folding chair with a frame like an X viewed from the front or the side originated in medieval Italy.

In England, the Glastonbury chair made an X-shape by crossing the front and back legs, while in Spain X-chairs were inlaid with ivory and metals in the Moorish designs.

[2] The chair in the illustration consists of a wooden flat-arched back rail carved with a coat-of-arms in low relief and connected to the back of the straight arms of the chair and a seat made of narrowly fitted wooden slats.

The woodwork was nearly always completely covered with silk or velvet, and the seat was made up of loose cushions resting on the webbing between the side rails of the frames.