Side chair | Yale University Art Gallery

1700–1725

Medium: Soft maple; side and rear seat rails, side and rear stretchers, three slats, ash
Dimensions: 43 9/16 × 13 3/16 × 13 1/4 in. (110.6 × 33.5 × 33.7 cm)
other (Back post): 46 3/8 in. (117.8 cm)
seat: 18 × 18 3/8 in. (45.7 × 46.7 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.2290
Geography: Probably made in Massachusetts
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Furniture
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Provenance

Theodore Offerman, 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), 36-37, no. 9, ill

Albert Sack, Fine Points of Furniture: Early American (New York: Crown Publishers, 1950), 11, ill

Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, 1st ed., 3 vols. (Framingham, Mass.: Old American Company Publishers, 1928–33), fig. 1975

American Art Association and American Art Galleries, New York, Illustrated Catalogue of Mr. T. Offerman's Collections of Rare Early American and Colonial Furniture, sale cat. (December 1922), n.p., no. 128

Wallace Nutting, Furniture of the Pilgrim Century, 1620–1720 (Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1921), 333, 342, fig. 408

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

side chairs

Carved on back of second slat from top:SB

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