Unknown American
Side Chair

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Maker Unknown American

CultureAmerican

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Side Chair

Datec. 1720–1750

Possible placeBoston, Massachusetts, United States

MediumPainted poplar, soft maple, black ash, elm, and white oak

Dimensions47 3/4 × 19 × 18 3/8 in. (121.3 × 48.3 × 46.7 cm)

Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg

Object numberB.69.46

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Department

Bayou Bend

Object Type

FURNITURE

Description

This type of chair, with turned banisters for back slats, represented an easily produced, less expensive variant on leather and cane-backed chairs. Often made in sets, these chairs were widely produced over a long period of time throughout New England.

Technical notes: B.69.46, painted poplar (legs), soft maple (crest rail), black ash (front stretcher, left seat rail, banisters, stay rail), elm (left stretcher), white oak (front seat rail); B.69.47, various woods, materials not analyzed microscopically.

Related examples: MMA (acc. nos. 10.125.218; 52.195.8, .9); Concord Museum, Massachusetts (Wood 1996, p. 63, no. 26); Jobe et al. 1991, pp. 70, 72, fig. 21.

Book excerpt: David B. Warren, 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.

Provenance[Israel Sack, New York]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1954; given to MFAH, prior to 1969.
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