Chair, Writing Arm Windsor | Yale University Art Gallery

1785–1800

Medium: Crest rail, arm rail and spindles, red oak; writing arm, yellow poplar; seat, basswood; legs and stretchers, soft maple.
Dimensions: 44 3/4 × 24 5/16 × 16 1/8 in. (113.7 × 61.8 × 41 cm)
seat: 16 1/2 in. (41.9 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.2368
Geography: Made in Connecticut
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Furniture
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Provenance

E. B. Leete, Guilford, Conn.; Henry H. Taylor, Bridgeport, Conn.; Francis P. Garvan, New York, N.Y.; The Mabel Brady Garvan Collection.

Bibliography

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), 196-97, no. 174, ill

Connecticut Furniture: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, exh. cat. (Hartford, Conn.: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1967), 137, no. 250, ill

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Object/Work type

writing-arm Windsor chairs

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