Art Institute of Chicago
Armchair
Artist unknown (American, 18th century)LinkedCulture matchlcp-720adf61c688
- Date
- c. 1740
- Medium
- Walnut and upholstery
- Culture
- Philadelphia
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 50282
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
This chair was made by an English or Irish cabinetmaker who had emigrated to Philadelphia. The style of the chair successfully blends the Philadelphia Quakers’ preference for elegant simplicity and functionality with decorative flourishes that were stylish in English work of the period. Some of the decorative elements that embellish the chair are also found on a small group of early Philadelphia-Baroque, “fiddleback-splat” chairs, so named for the curve on the side of the back splat reminiscent of the shape of a violin.
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- Credit line
- Gift of the Antiquarian Society through the Jessie Spalding Landon Fund
- Provenance
- N.W. Peters, New Town, Penn., to 1934; Mrs. J. Amory Haskell, New York and Freehold, New Jersey, from 1934 to 1944; Parke–Bernet Galleries, New York, 1944; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1944.
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- Object type
- AAT300037336
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