Side chair | Yale University Art Gallery

1765–85

Medium: Mahogany; right rear corner block, red gum; left front corner block, mahogany; rectangular rear corner block under splat shoe, red gum; rear seat rail and seat frame, red gum
Dimensions: 39 5/16 × 17 7/8 × 18 9/16 in. (99.9 × 45.4 × 47.1 cm)
seat: 17 3/4 × 22 1/4 in. (45.1 × 56.5 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1963.11a-b
Geography: Made in New York
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Furniture
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Provenance

Francis P. Garvan, New York, N.Y.; Israel Sack, Inc., New York, N.Y.; The Mabel Brady Garvan Collection.

Bibliography

Christie's New York, New York, Important American Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, and Chinese Export Art, sale cat. (January 23–24, and 27, 2014), 146, fig. 1

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), 143, no. 121, ill

John T. Kirk, American Chairs: Queen Anne and Chippendale (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972), 122, fig. 147

American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–89), vol. 1, p. 105, no. 307, ill

Anderson Galleries and American Art Association, New York, Selections From The Collection of Francis P. Garvan, sale cat. (January 8–10, 1931), 236, no. 365

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side chairs

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