SAPFM Museum Furniture Collection

Side chair

Side chair, 1740–60, American black walnut; front corner blocks, white pine; sides and rear of slip seat frame, birch; front…
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.
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