Side Chair Maker: Unknown

1810–20

American Decorative Arts

On view, 1st floor, American Decorative Arts before 1900

Of all the scroll-back chairs produced in New York during the Federal period, those with lyres in their backs were illustrated most frequently in design books. The New-York Book of Prices for Manufacturing Cabinet and Chair Work for 1817 (E, pl. 6) recommended a seven shilling, eight pence extra labor charge for a chair with a "Lyre banister," and other details.

Medium

Mahogany

Dimensions

32 7/16 × 15 3/8 × 16 3/4 in. (82.4 × 39.1 × 42.5 cm)
seat: 15 3/4 × 17 5/8 in. (40 × 44.8 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Henrietta C. Bartlett

Accession Number

1934.46

Geography

Made in New York, New York

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Henrietta C. Bartlett, New Haven, Conn.
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), 177-178, no. 157, ill
  • 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), 59, fig. 42
  • Charles Nagel, Jr., "A Chair of the Early Nineteenth Century," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University 6, no. 3 (June 1935), 59, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

side chairs

Inscriptions

The number "II" is marked on top of the front seat rail.

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