Pair of Side Chairs Maker: Eliphalet Chapin (American, 1741–1807)

1781

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Cherry; corner blocks and slip seat frame, white pine

Dimensions

38 9/16 × 15 11/16 × 16 11/16 in. (97.9 × 39.8 × 42.4 cm)
Seat: 16 1/8 × 20 1/2 in. (40.9 × 52.1 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2516a-b

Geography

Made in East Windsor, Connecticut

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Furniture

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Provenance
Abigail Olcott King (1760–1837) and Alexander King (1749–1831), East Windsor, Conn.; by descent to their daughter Harriet King (1795–1884), East Windsor, Conn.; sold to Irving W. Lyon (1840–1896), Hartford, Conn.; by descent to his son Charles W. Lyon, New York; sold in 1929 to Francis P. Garvan, New York; by gift to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1930
Bibliography
  • David Jaffee, A New Nation of Goods: The Material Culture of Early America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010), 38–39, fig. 16
  • Thomas Peter Kugelman et al., Connecticut Valley Furniture: Eliphalet Chapin and His Contemporaries, 1750-1800, ed. Susan Schoelwer (Hartford, Conn.: Connecticut Historical Society Museum, 2005), 146, no. 57D, ill
  • Elise K. Kenney, ed., Handbook of the Collections: Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 90, ill
  • Patricia E. Kane, 300 Years of American Seating Furniture Chairs and Beds from the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976), 138-140, no. 117, ill
  • John T. Kirk, American Chairs: Queen Anne and Chippendale (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972), 146, fig. 193
  • Connecticut Furniture: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, exh. cat. (Hartford, Conn.: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1967), 130–31, fig. 236
  • Emily M. Davis, "Eliphalet Chapin," Antiques 35 (April 1939), 172, fig. 2
  • "More Evidence for Eliphalet," Antiques 31 (January 1937), 11, fig. 7
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

side chairs

Inscriptions

On underside of slip seat frame of 1930.2516.b, written in pencil: "The two...were part of a set...1781 by Eph...Chapin. of South Windsor...their original price in 17..was $5...Lyon work book;" also in pencil: " They were made for Alexander King in 1781 when he was married..him to (daughter) Miss Har(ie)t King, South Windsor, Conn....Oct 31 1877 by Dr. I.W. Lyon." The slip seat and seat frame of 1930.2516.a are marked "IIII"; those of 1930.2516.b are marked "III".

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