Side Chair Maker: Unknown

1720–40

American Decorative Arts

On view, 1st floor, American Decorative Arts before 1900

This chair reflects a dramatic change in seating furniture that took place toward the end of the 1720s. The uprights curve and the backrest becomes a single broad splat. Chairs of this type also retain earlier features such as vase-and-block turned legs and ball-and-ring turned front stretchers. Similar leather chairs often have scrolled or so-called Spanish feet. This chair retains its original Russia leather upholstery on the back panel and on the band along the edges of the seat.

Medium

Soft maple, red oak, leather upholstery

Dimensions

42 13/16 × 14 3/8 × 14 1/2 in. (108.7 × 36.5 × 36.8 cm)
seat: 17 1/2 × 17 1/4 in. (44.4 × 43.8 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2658

Geography

Made in Boston, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
Luke V. Lockwood, Greenwich, Conn.; 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), 61-62, no. 40, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

side chairs

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