Side Chair Maker: Unknown

ca. 1765

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Mahogany (primary), pine (blocks), and oak (slip seat frame)

Dimensions

38 1/4 × 23 × 21 1/4 in. (97.2 × 58.4 × 54 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Sylvia and Leonard Marx, Jr., B.A. 1954

Accession Number

2021.63.4

Geography

Made in New York, New York

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Furniture

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Provenance
Cornelia Haring Jones (1741-1821) and Samuel Jones (1734-1819), New York and Oyster Bay, N.Y. by inheritance to his their son Major William Jones (1768-1853), Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.; by inheritance to his daughter Eleanor Jones Smith (1805-1884), Brookhaven, N.Y.; by gift to her son James Weeks Smith (1836–1901), Brookhaven, New York; by descent in the family; sold to Israel Sack, Inc., N.Y.; sold to Virginia Wise Marx (1905–1999) and Leonard Maximilian Marx (1904–2002), Scarsdale, N.Y.; by inheritance to Sylvia and Leonard Marx, Jr. (1932–2022), Greenwich, Conn. 2002; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2021
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

side chairs

Marks

None

Inscriptions

"V," incised, on slip seat frame; "CCCC," incised on interior of rear rail; "AAS[?]," in graphite, on front rail of slip seat, partially covered by upholstery; "I. W. Smith / May 7th [th superscript and underscored] 1873 / from / mother," in graphite, on inner face of front proper left corner block; "I. W. S.," in graphite, on top of same block

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