- Armchair
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Upward-turned ears and chamfered round seat are features found on the New England version of the high-back chair; the exaggeration of the upturned ears signals a Connecticut example.
Technical notes: Yellow-poplar (seat), soft maple (legs, stretchers, arm supports, arm spindles), hickory (back spindles). A non-period stencil, “Made in 1776,” is on the underside of the seat.
Related examples: Evans 1996, p. 329, fig. 6–169.
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.
ProvenanceLouis Guerineau Myers (1874–1932), New York; consigned to [American Art Association, Anderson Art Galleries, Louis Guerineau Myers sale, New York, February 25, 1921, lot 495]; purchased by William C. Hogg (1875–1930), 1921; bequeathed to Miss Ima Hogg, 1930; given to MFAH, 1969.
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