Art Institute of Chicago
Side Chair
Artist unknown (American, 18th century)LinkedCulture matchlcp-720adf61c688
- Date
- 1760–85
- Medium
- Mahogany with oak, maple, and upholstery
- Culture
- Boston
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 120394
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Designs for American furniture of the colonial period were usually based on European precedents, whether from an exact prototype, from designs in pattern books, or from the memory of an immigrant craftsman. In the case of this chair, the craftsman based the design on both an English chair that was imported into Boston sometime around 1750 and on a design plate from Thomas Chippendale’s pattern book, The Gentleman and the Cabinetmaker’s Director , published in 1762. With its delicate proportions and crisp carvings, this chair is one of the boldest expressions of the Boston Rococo style.
The authoritative record is held by Art Institute of Chicago. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.
Get printable QR codesHide QR codes
Open QR codes for this object page and the museum record. They stay collapsed until needed.
Provenance & credit
As published by the source institution. Coverage varies — not every institution's open-data feed includes ownership history.
- Credit line
- Helen Bowen Blair Fund
- Provenance
- Mr. and Mrs. David A. Wasson, Cambridge, MA, and Kittery Point, ME; by descent to their nephew, Allen Lamprell, Kittery, ME, by 1990; with Peter Sawyer, Exeter, New Hampshire, 1990; with Israel Sack, Incorporated, New York, by 1991; the Art Institute of Chicago, 1991.
Linked open data
Authority identifiers that link this record into the wider web of cultural data — stable references you can follow to the source.
- Object type
- AAT300037336
Related across collections
Semantically similar works from Art Institute of Chicago and other institutions.