Object Information
Unknown artist
Boston, Massachusetts
Side Chair, 1770/85
Mahogany with oak and maple
93.3 x 54.6 x 44.8 cm (36 3/4 x 21 1/2 x 17 5/8 in.)
Incised on rear seat rail:"V" original maple slip seat incised on rear rail:"VIII"
Helen Bowen Blair Fund, 1991.266
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Judith A. Barter et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 93-95, no. 30.
Ownership History
Mr. and Mrs. David A. Wasson, Cambridge, Mass., and Kittery Point, Maine; by descent to their nephew, Allen Lamprell, Kittery, Maine, by 1990; Peter Sawyer, 1990; Israel Sack, Incorporated, New York, by 1991; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1991.