Side chair | Yale University Art Gallery

1680–1710

Medium: American ash
Dimensions: 30 1/2 × 13 1/2 × 14 in. (77.5 × 34.3 × 35.6 cm)
other (Back post): 34 11/16 in. (88.1 cm)
seat: 14 3/8 × 17 1/4 in. (36.5 × 43.8 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1963.6
Geography: Possibly made in Branford, Connecticut, Possibly made in New Haven County
Culture: American
Period: 17th–18th century
Classification: Furniture
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Provenance

Charles W. Lyon, New York, N.Y.; Francis P. Garvan, New York, N.Y.; The Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Bibliography

Erik K. Gronning, "Early New York Turned Chairs: A Stoelendraaier's Conceit," American Furniture (2001), 104–5, fig. 25

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), 32-33, no. 4, ill

Patricia E. Kane, Furniture of the New Haven Colony: The Seventeenth Century Style, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: New Haven Museum and Historical Society, 1973), 76–77, no. 24

Connecticut Furniture: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, exh. cat. (Hartford, Conn.: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1967), 114, no. 200

John T. Kirk, "Sources of Some American Regional Furniture," Antiques 88 (December 1965), 798, fig. 18

Luke Vincent Lockwood, Colonial Furniture in America, 3rd ed., 2 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926), vol. 2, p. 10, fig. 411.

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Object/Work type

side chairs

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