Side Chair Maker: Unknown

1740–60

American Decorative Arts

On view, 1st floor, American Decorative Arts before 1900

This chair is of a type made in the coastal communities of New Haven County, Connecticut, that have an arched crest rail pierced with a heart and either banister backs or vase-shaped splats like this one. This chair is identical to an example that came from the Rose House in North Branford, Connecticut (the interior paneling of which is now at the Yale University Art Gallery). Another counterpart and a related example, with a banister back, are at the Dorothy Whitfield Historic Society in Guilford, Connecticut.

Medium

Maple with ash or hickory stretchers and seat rails

Dimensions

42 1/2 × 18 3/4 × 15 1/2 in. (107.95 × 47.625 × 39.37 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Joseph H. Twichell

Accession Number

2009.87.1

Geography

Made in New Haven County, Connecticut

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
Mrs. Burton Twichell (nee Katharine Pratt, 1891-1983), New Haven, Connecticut; by descent to her grandson Joseph Hooker Twichell (b. 1949), Pawcatuck, Connecticut; given by him to the Yale University Art Gallery in 2009.
Bibliography
  • "Acquisitions 2009," in "State of the Art: Contemporary Sculpture," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2009), 127
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

side chairs

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