Armchair

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Armchair
Datec. 1790–1810
Made inRhode Island, United States
MediumYellow-poplar, soft maple, and hickory
Dimensions37 1/2 × 21 1/2 × 23 1/2 in. (95.3 × 54.6 × 59.7 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.69.415
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Glazed Porch
On view

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

The addition of diagonally splayed braces attached to the crest rail and a tail piece at the center rear of the seat, a form known as the brace-back, is almost entirely limited to Windsor furniture made in New York and New England. The turnings of the legs and arm supports of this example are less vigorous than those of B.69.410, suggesting a slightly later date, and the arm supports lack the tapering arrow shape in the lower section just above the seat.

Technical notes: Yellow-poplar (seat), soft maple (legs, stretchers, arm supports), hickory (crest rail, spindles). 

Related examples: Evans 1996, p. 278, fig. 6–77. 

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.


ProvenancePossibly [American Art Association, Anderson Art Galleries, Louis G. Meyer Collection, New York, February 25, 1921]; purchased by William C. Hogg, Houston, 1921; bequeathed to his sister, Miss Ima Hogg, 1930; given to MFAH, 1969.
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