Side chair Maker, possibly by: Eliphalet Chapin (American, 1741–1807)

ca. 1780

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Cherry; corner blocks, white pine; seat frame, white oak

Dimensions

38 3/8 × 16 1/2 × 16 5/8 in. (97.5 × 41.9 × 42.2 cm)
seat: 16 3/8 × 20 1/2 in. (41.6 × 52.1 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2561

Geography

Made in East Windsor, Connecticut

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Harry Arons, Ansonia, Conn.; Francis P. Garvan, New York, N.Y. (1924); The Mabel Brady Garvan Collection.
Bibliography
  • Charles F. Montgomery and Patricia E. Kane, eds., American Art: 1750–1800 Towards Independence, exh. cat. (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976), 156, fig. 106
  • 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), 140-141, no. 118, ill
  • John T. Kirk, American Chairs: Queen Anne and Chippendale (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972), 146, fig. 194
  • John T. Kirk, Early American Furniture: How to Recognize, Evaluate, and Care for the Most Beautiful Pieces: High Style, Country, Primitive and Rustic (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970), 114, fig. 123
  • Connecticut Furniture: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, exh. cat. (Hartford, Conn.: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1967), 130, no. 237, ill
  • Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, 1st ed., 3 vols. (Framingham, Mass.: Old American Company Publishers, 1928–33), fig. 2192
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

side chairs

Inscriptions

The insides of the rear seat rail and slip seat frame are marked "V".

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