Arm Chair | Yale University Art Gallery

1720–60

Not on view

Medium: Maple
Dimensions: 42 7/8 × 25 3/4 × 17 1/4 in. (108.9 × 65.4 × 43.8 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.2030a
Geography: Probably made in Massachusetts
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Furniture
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Provenance

Francis P. Garvan (1875-1937), New York; gift to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1930

Bibliography

Douglass Scott, Joan Ketter, and Michael Boodro, The American Clock, 1725–1865, Forgeries and Restorations in American Furniture: Two Yale Student Exhibitions, May 18–June 28, 1974, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Garvan Furniture Study, May 18–June 28, 1974), n.p., no. 7

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Object/Work type

armchairs

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