Roundabout Chair Yale University Art Gallery

1760–80

Medium: Mahogany; inner facing right rear seat rail, white pine; right rear seat ledge, yellow poplar
Dimensions: 30 13/16 × 18 5/8 × 18 13/16 in. (78.3 × 47.3 × 47.8 cm)
seat: 16 in. (40.6 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.2695
Geography: Made in New York
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Furniture
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Provenance

Mrs. Franklin Bartlett, New York, N.Y. (probably sale New York, American Art Association, American Art Galleries, Jan. 10-15, 1921); Francis P. Garvan, New York, N.Y.; The Mabel Brady Garvan Collection.

Bibliography

Judith Bernstein et al., The Eye of the Beholder: Fakes, Replicas, and Alterations in American Art, ed. Gerald W. R. Ward, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1977), 28, fig. 23

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), 142-143, no. 120, 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), 172, fig. 175

Edgar G. Miller, American Antique Furniture: A Book for Amateurs, 2 vols. (Baltimore: Lord Baltimore Press, 1937), vol. 1, pp. 252–54, no. 431

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

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Object/Work type

roundabout chairs

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