Side Chair

Maker Unknown, American, 18th Century

Collections

ClassificationsDECORATIVE ARTS

Date1740-1765

Mediumwalnut and silk

Dimensions40 × 22 × 20 in. (101.6 × 55.9 × 50.8 cm.)

DescriptionLate Baroque style chair from Massachusetts with cabriole legs and pad feet

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gail-Oxford Collection

Status

Not on view

Label TextSide chairs such as these with their gracefully curving cabriole legs and pad feet in the fashionable late Baroque style were produced in New England, particularly Boston, from approximately 1730 to 1760. Although this is not a matching pair, chairs such as these were often produced as a set. The chair with the bulbous medial stretcher and scalloped front seat rail has four notches carved inside the rail indicating that it was once part of a set.

Object number2016.11.18