CultureAmerican
Titles
- Side Chair
Datec. 1780–1800
Made inPennsylvania, United States
MediumYellow-poplar, soft maple, and hickory
Dimensions36 1/2 × 23 3/8 × 19 3/8 in. (92.7 × 59.4 × 49.2 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.69.405
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Department
Bayou BendObject Type
This type of fan-back side chair was produced primarily in Pennsylvania and New England. The horizontality of the scrolled-ear crest rail conforms with the norm of Pennsylvania design.
Technical notes: Yellow-poplar (seat), soft maple (legs, stretchers), hickory (crest rail, spindles).
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.
ProvenanceMiss Ima Hogg, by 1965; given to MFAH, by 1969.
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