Side Chair Maker: Unknown

1795–1800

American Decorative Arts

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

Vase- or shield-shaped backs were the quintessential design of the Federal period and are found on chairs made from Boston to Charleston, S.C. The plume of feathers and the drapery swags appear on many examples; however, the narrow proportions of this chair differentiate it from those made in the North.

Medium

Mahogany and ash

Dimensions

38 1/4 × 13 3/4 × 17 3/4 in. (97.2 × 34.9 × 45.1 cm)
seat: 15 5/8 × 21 1/8 in. (39.7 × 53.7 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2490a-b

Geography

Made in Charleston, South Carolina

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.

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), 162-163, no. 140, ill
  • Helen Comstock, American Furniture: Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Century Styles (New York: Viking Press, 1962), n.p., fig. 425
  • Meyric R. Rogers, "Garvan Furniture at Yale," Connoisseur Year Book, 1960 (1960), 60, fig. 14
  • Joseph Downs, "Some English and American Furniture in the Inaugural Exhibition," The Pennsylvania Museum Bulletin 23 (May 1928), 19, fig. N
  • Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, 1st ed., 3 vols. (Framingham, Mass.: Old American Company Publishers, 1928–33), n.p., fig. 2349
Object copyright
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Object/Work type

side chairs

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