Pair of Side Chairs

CC0 Public Domain Designation

1770–90

Attributed to Chapin School of Cabinetmakers
Hartford County, Connecticut

Status: On View, Gallery 167
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Chapin School of Cabinetmakers
Title: Pair of Side Chairs
Place: East Windsor Hill (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. 1770–1790
Medium: Mahogany with white pine, yellow pine, and upholstery
Inscriptions: Incised in Roman numerals, on the inside rear seat rails: "IIII" (of 1970.33) and "V" (of 1970.32); inscribed in pencil, once on each interior seat rail:"4" (of 1970.33); once on the front and side interior seat rails:"V" (of 1970.32); and on interior rear seat rail:"5" (of 1970.32)
Dimensions: Each: 96.7 × 53.3 × 42.5 cm (38 1/2 × 21 × 16 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Antiquarian Society
Reference Number: 1970.32-33
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Israel Sack, American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection 16 (Dec. 1968), no. 1079 (ill.).
D. Hanks, “A Pair of Eighteenth Century Connecticut Side Chairs,” Calendar of The Art Institute of Chicago 64, 4 (Sept. 1970), 7 (ill.).
R. Davidson, “Museum Accessions,” Antiques 98, 3 (Sept. 1970), 374 (ill.).
The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years (Art Institute of Chicago, 1977), cat. 138.
Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture (American Association for State and Local History, 1981), no. 147.
Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture, 2nd ed., (American Association for State and Local History, 1989), no. 172.
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), 102–04, no. 35.

Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977, cat. 138 (ill.).

With Israel Sack, New York City, by 1970; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1970.

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