Side Chair

Maker unknown · Boston · 1720–40

This chair reflects a dramatic change in seating furniture that took place toward the end of the 1720s. The uprights curve and the backrest becomes a single broad splat. Chairs of this type also retain earlier features such as vase-and-block turned legs and ball-and-ring turned front stretchers. Similar leather chairs often have scrolled or so-called Spanish feet. This chair retains its original Russia leather upholstery on the back panel and on the band along the edges of the seat.

Medium

Soft maple (primary); red oak (front and side seat rails); original leather (back panel and skirt edge); modern leather (seat)

Dimensions

42.8 x 14.4 x 14.5 in. (108.7 x 36.5 x 36.8 cm) · max. W 17.2 in. (43.8 cm)

Accession

1930.2658

Credit line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection