Side chair
- Date
- 1740–60
- Medium
- American black walnut; front corner blocks, white pine; sides and rear of slip seat frame, birch; front of slip seat frame, maple
- Dimensions
- 39.3 x 15.5 x 17.9 in. (99.7 x 39.4 x 45.4 cm) · max. W 20.7 in. (52.7 cm)
- Form
- Chair
- Origin
- Massachusetts
- Museum
- Yale University Art Gallery
- Accession
- 1930.2712
- Credit line
- Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
This side chair is stylistically related to a group of chairs believed to be made in Boston and exported to Newport and New York as part of the thriving maritime trade during the mid-eighteenth century.