Side chair Maker: Unknown

ca. 1800

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Mahogany; side and front seat rails white oak; open braces pine of the Taeda group

Dimensions

38 3/16 in. (97 cm)
16 3/4 in. (42.5 cm) SH
15 5/16 in. (38.9 cm) Seat rails
20 × 17 13/16 in. (50.8 × 45.2 cm) MW , D

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2850a-d

Geography

Made in Maryland

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Purchased from the descendants of Charles Carroll (1723-83), Annapolis and Baltimore, Maryland, by R. T. Haines Halsey, 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), 164-166, no. 144, ill
  • John T. Kirk, Early American Furniture: How to Recognize, Evaluate, and Care for the Most Beautiful Pieces: High Style, Country, Primitive and Rustic (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970), 11, fig. 2
  • "Antiques in Domestic Settings," Antiques 41 (June 1942), 360, fig. 4
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

side chairs

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