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American Decorative Arts
Side Chair
1740–1750
Walnut
44 1/4 × 21 1/4 × 17 1/4 in. (112.4 × 54 × 43.8 cm)
seat: 17 1/2 in. (44.5 cm)
seat: 17 1/2 in. (44.5 cm)
Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
1930.2129
Geography:
Made in The Netherlands
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
Dutch
Period:
18th century
Classification:
Furniture
Provenance:
Charles Woolsey Lyon (1872–1945), New York; sold in 1925 to Francis P. Garvan (1875–1937), New York; by gift to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., in 1930
Bibliography:
Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury (New York: MacMillan Company, 1963), no. 2140, ill.
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