Side Chair
Shaker Community
- Maker
- Shaker Community
- Date
- 1840–50
- Medium
- Maple, hickory
- Dimensions
- 40.7 x 18.7 x 15.5 in. (103.5 x 47.6 x 39.4 cm)
- Form
- Chair
- Origin
- Enfield
- Museum
- Yale University Art Gallery
- Accession
- 1994.37.1
- Credit line
- Bequest of Wilma B. Keyes
Chairmaking was a major industry of the Shakers, and the slat-back chair was one of the chief forms they produced and marketed to the outside world. Shakers also made slat-back chairs for use within their communities. This chair is one such example, having been used within the community at Enfield, Connecticut.