Side chairs | Yale University Art Gallery

1760–80

Medium: Mahogany; slip seat frame, pine of the Taeda group
Dimensions: 37 1/4 × 21 9/16 × 17 7/16 in. (94.6 × 54.8 × 44.3 cm)
seat: 16 7/8 in. (42.9 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.2105a-b
Geography: Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Furniture
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Provenance

Collings and Collings, New York, N.Y.; 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), 118-19, no. 99, ill

John T. Kirk, American Chairs: Queen Anne and Chippendale (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972), 82, fig. 75

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

side chairs

(On 1930.2105a) "NI" is written in pencil on the inside of the rear seat rail. The top of the front seat ledge is marked "I".

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