Chair
Maker
Unknown, American
Additional Title(s)
- Pilgrim Century Chair
Collections
ClassificationsDECORATIVE ARTS
Dateca. 1690-1700
Mediummaple, ash, rush, and black paint
Dimensions41 1/2 x 26 3/4 x 20 1/2 in. (105.4 x 67.9 x 52.1 cm.)
DescriptionPilgrim three-slat chair, black; probably Connecticut shoreline (New London County) or Long Island. This wide chair, with well-turned lemon finials and dramatically canted turned arms, appears to be pre-curser to the famous mushroom armchairs of New London County of 1740. Note the finely conceived subtle turnings on the back posts, front legs, and at teach end of the arms. Also the mushroom handholds are large and well conceived. The width of the chair connotes its early date.
Credit LineJonathan and Karin Fielding Collection
Status
On viewObject numberL2015.41.107
Ebenezer Tracy, Sr.
late 18th century
Object number: L2015.41.112
William Blake
ca. 1801
Object number: 000.24
Ammi Phillips
ca. 1825 - 1830
Object number: 2016.25.106
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William Blake
1808
Object number: 000.3
William Blake
1807
Object number: 000.2