About this artwork
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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Status
- On View, Gallery 166
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Department
- Arts of the Americas
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Artist
- Artist unknown
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Title
- Armchair
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Place
- Philadelphia (Object made in)
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Date
- c. 1740
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Medium
- Walnut and upholstery
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Dimensions
- 107.9 × 60.4 × 47.6 cm (42 1/2 × 23 3/4 × 18 3/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of the Antiquarian Society through the Jessie Spalding Landon Fund
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Reference Number
- 1944.207
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/50282/manifest.json
Extended information about this artwork
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