Side Chair | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1740

Medium: Side legs and stretchers, American black walnut; seat rails, white oak; silk, wool, and linen upholstery
Dimensions: 38 1/2 × 17 9/16 × 19 13/16 in. (97.8 × 44.6 × 50.3 cm)
seat: 15 15/16 × 22 1/8 in. (40.5 × 56.2 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1953.20.1
Geography: Made in Ireland
Culture: Irish
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.

Bibliography

William Laffan and Christopher P. Monkhouse, Ireland: Crossroads of Art and Design, 1690–1840 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2015), 249.

Christina Borger, "Hidden Treasures," New Haven Register (December 13, 2009), E1, ill.

Desmond John Villiers FitzGerald and James Peill, Irish furniture: Woodwork and Carving in Ireland from the Earliest Times to the Act of Union (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007), 153–54, fig. 211.

John Marshall Phillips, "A Philidelphia Queen Anne Upholstered Side Chair," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 20, no. 2 (March 1953): n.p., ill.

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