Side chair

Maker unknown · Massachusetts · 1740–60

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.

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)

Accession

1930.2712

Credit line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection