Easy Chair

Maker unknown · Philadelphia · 1755–75

The balloon-shaped seat and the horizontally rolled arms with C-scrolled ends on this chair are typical of Philadelphia easy chairs. The attribution is strengthened by the well-knuckled, stout ball-and-claw feet and the cartouche carved knees. Philadelphia cabinetmakers commonly continued to use walnut as a primary wood in the late colonial period.

Medium

American black walnut (primary); white oak (seat rails); replacement eighteenth-century upholstery

Dimensions

44.3 x 24 x 24.4 in. (112.6 x 61 x 61.9 cm) · max. W 27.4 in. (69.5 cm)

Accession

1962.31.25

Credit line

Bequest of Olive Louise Dann