Settee

1815–20

Artist unknown (American, 18th–19th century)
New York

Status: On View, Gallery 169
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Artist unknown
Title: Settee
Place: New York City (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1815–1820
Medium: Mahogany with caning and upholstery
Dimensions: 90.2 × 183.3 × 58.4 cm (35 1/2 × 72 3/8 × 23 in.)
Credit Line: Robert Allerton Purchase Fund
Reference Number: 1978.301
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Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture (Nashville, American Association for State and Local History, 1981), no. 41.
Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture, 2nd ed. (Nashville, American Association for State and Local History, 1989), 46, (ill. p. 16).
Important American Furniture, Silver, Folk Art and Decorative Arts (Christie’s, 1997).
Judith A. Barter et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 131–133, no. 54.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry McFarlan, New York, from 1818; by descent to Hope Morton and Beal Wilson, by 1882; Alice E. Brown, from 1882; J. Armory Haskell, (?); Mr. and Mrs. Mitchel Taradash, to 1978; Israel Sack, Inc., New York, 1978; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1978.

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