Side chair Maker: Unknown

1760–80

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

American black walnut; seat rails, soft maple; corner blocks, white pine

Dimensions

38 9/16 × 15 3/4 × 16 7/8 in. (97.9 × 40 × 42.9 cm)
seat: 17 1/8 × 20 in. (43.5 × 50.8 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2415

Geography

Made in Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Furniture

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Provenance
William Pitkin (1694-1769), Hartford, Conn.; Irving W. Lyon, Hartford, Conn.; Mrs. John P. Penney (Mamie P. Lyon), Pittsburgh, Pa.; 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), 145, no. 123, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

side chairs

Inscriptions

Ink inscription on torn paper label (now removed from chair to gallery files): Gov Wm.../ Chair - s.../ my Catalo.../ Page 45. No.../ I W Lyo..."

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