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The most discernible of the subtle differences between this side chair and the previous example (B.69.66) is the handling of the knee brackets, here terminating in a simple ruffle, a presage of the Rococo.
Technical notes: Black walnut; southern yellow pine (slip seat). The front rim is integral with the seat rail, while applied on the side rails. The rear seat rail, with its contoured brackets, is fashioned from a single board. The inside front and rear seat rails as well as the slip seat’s front are incised II.
Related examples: Heckscher 1985, pp. 86–87, no. 42, records another chair from this set. A similar example is in Rodriguez Roque 1984, pp. 114–15, no. 48.
Book excerpt: Warren, David B., Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff. American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.
ProvenanceBy family tradition owned by Thomas Chandler (1709–1785), Westminster, Vermont; given to his son John Chandler (1736–1821); given to his son Dr. Chauncy Cheney Chandler (1773–1833); given to his son Lucius Henry Chandler (1812–1871); given to his daughters Sarah Farley Chandler (b. 1837) and Susan Robbins Chandler (b. 1844); given to their niece Emma Chandler (Mrs. James Wilburn Goldthwaite, 1870–1952), Medina, Ohio; given to her son and daughter-in-law, Scott and Mildred Goldthwaite; [Israel Sack, Inc., New York]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1952; given to MFAH, 1969.
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