Side Chair

c. 1780–90

Artist unknown (American, 18th century)
Boston, Roxbury, or Salem, Massachusetts

Status: On View, Gallery 168
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Artist unknown
Title: Side Chair
Place: Massachusetts (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. 1780–1790
Medium: Mahogany, white pine, maple, and upholstery
Inscriptions: Inscribed on paper label: "This old carved chair is the property of Geo./W. Price, given to him by Eliza F. P. Pray"
Dimensions: 93.5 × 57 × 50.8 cm (36 11/16 × 22 1/2 × 20 in.)
Credit Line: Robert R. McCormick Charitable Trust Fund
Reference Number: 1981.123
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Dean T. Lahikainen, Samuel McIntire: Carving an American Style, exh. cat. (Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, 2007), 58, figs. 3–13, 3–14.

Salem, Peabody Essex Museum, Samuel McIntire, Carving an American Style, Oct. 13, 2007–Feb. 24, 2008.

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