Chair | Yale University Art Gallery

1640–80

Medium: Ash (Fraxinus)
Dimensions: 33 × 15 1/2 × 15 1/4 in. (83.8 × 39.4 × 38.7 cm)
other (Back post): 35 3/4 in. (90.8 cm)
seat: 15 13/16 × 20 in. (40.2 × 50.8 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.2454
Geography: Made in Connecticut
Culture: American
Period: 17th 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.

Bibliography

Douglass Scott, Joan Ketter, and Michael Boodro, The American Clock, 1725–1865, Forgeries and Restorations in American Furniture: Two Yale Student Exhibitions, May 18–June 28, 1974, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Garvan Furniture Study, May 18–June 28, 1974), n.p., no. 1

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), 154, fig. 161

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