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Photo: Courtesy Yale University Art Gallery, Mabel Brady Garvan Collection, 1930.2425a
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Side chairs, pair

Object number

RIF3605

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

40 3/8 × 13 1/2 × 14 in. (102.6 × 34.3 × 35.6 cm) Seat: 17 9/16 × 19 in. (44.6 × 48.3 cm)

Date

1750–1800

Current location

Yale University Art Gallery

Geography

Probably made in Providence, Rhode Island
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Medium

Soft maple; yellow poplar (splat)

Provenance

Philip Flayderman (1874–1929), Boston; consigned by his estate to American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc., New York, January 2–4, 1930, lot 137; sold to Francis P. Garvan (1875–1937), New York; given to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, 1930

Associated names

Philip Flayderman

Construction

The brown paint is old. The upper left stretcher is a replacement. Faint grooves mark the placement of the stretchers, seat rails, and lower back rail. The tops of the front legs are pinned to the front corners of the seat with square wooden pegs. The crest rail is pinned to the stiles.

See also

Bibliography

Patricia E. Kane, 300 Years of American Seating Furniture Chairs and Beds from the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976), 104, no. 89, ill.
Anderson Galleries and American Art Association, New York, Colonial Furniture, Silver, and Decorations: The Collection of the Late Philip Flayderman, sale cat. (January 2–4, 1930), 29, lot 137, ill.
Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 194, 362–365, no. 76.