Armchair Maker: Unknown

ca. 1720

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Maple and yellow poplar

Dimensions

47 1/2 × 23 1/2 in. (120.7 × 59.7 cm)
seat: 15 3/4 in. (40 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of C. Sanford Bull, B.A. 1893

Accession Number

1953.50.5

Geography

Made in Connecticut

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Furniture

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Provenance
James Davidson, New London, Conn., by 1928. C. Sanford Bull (1871–1955), Middlebury, Conn.; gift to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1953
Bibliography
  • Connecticut Furniture: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, exh. cat. (Hartford, Conn.: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1967), 116, no. 204, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

armchairs

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