Art Institute of Chicago
Armchair
Artist unknown (American, 17th–18th century)LinkedCulture matchlcp-720adf61c688
- Date
- 1670–1700
- Medium
- Maple and ash
- Culture
- New York
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 55936
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
This chair is one among a small group of turned chairs with slat backs that were produced in the New York area at the end of the 17th century. The chair was made by an artisan known as a turner, whose main tools were a lathe and a set of gouges. A block of wood was set into the lathe, which was operated manually by an apprentice using a hand crank or a foot pump. Gouges, or tolls, with sharp edges in varying widths were used to form the design on the wood being turned.
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- Credit line
- Sewell L. Avery Fund
- Provenance
- Bernard Arthur Behrend (1875–1932), Wellesley, MA, by 1932; bequeathed to his widow Margaret Chase Behrend (1895–1982; born Margaret Plummer Chase, also Mrs. Dudley Phelps Sanford, previously Mrs. Bernard Arthur Behrend), Wellesley Hills, MA, 1932 (later known as the Dr. and Mrs. Dudley Phelps Sanford Collection, Aiken, SC) [incoming receipt, R8411, May 28, 1945; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1946.
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- Object type
- AAT300037336
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