Pair of side chairs Maker: Unknown

1760–80

American Decorative Arts

Not on view
Medium

Mahogany; corner blocks, white; slip seat frame, soft maple

Dimensions

37 1/2 × 15 7/8 × 17 5/16 in. (95.3 × 40.3 × 44 cm)
seat: 16 7/16 × 20 in. (41.8 × 50.8 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2127a

Geography

Made in Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Furniture

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Provenance
Barton Brothers, Centreville, Md.; 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), 146-47, no. 124, ill
  • John T. Kirk, American Chairs: Queen Anne and Chippendale (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972), 101, fig. 106
  • 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), 60, 62, fig. 45, 47
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

side chairs

Inscriptions

Written in pencil on underside of slip seat frame: "C.D. Barnitz 1890/2010 St. Paul St Balt"; same inscription (in one line) written in pencil on inside of slip seat frame

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