Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Furnishings (hierarchy name)
5. furnishings (works)
6. [furnishings by form or function]
7. furniture
8. [furniture by form or function]
9. seating furniture
10. single seating furniture
11. chairs (furniture forms)
12. [chairs by form]
13. backstools

Narrower term/s

• asipim

Anotations

Scope note:

Term of convenience for a type of chair with a wide but not very deep seat, low back, and no arms, originating in England in Elizabethan times. Term may have been coined under the assumption that the chairs were designed to accommodate the wide, hooped dresses called farthingales.