High Chair

Arts of the Americas

1640–70

Artist unknown (American, 17th century)
Dorchester area, Massachusetts

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Artist unknown
Title: High Chair
Places: Dorchester (Object made in), United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date: 1640-1670
Medium: Ash, white oak, and silver maple
Dimensions: 92.7 × 29.5 × 31.1 cm (36 1/2 × 11 5/8 × 12 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
Reference Number: 1950.1748
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Alan R. Sawyer, “American Folk Art,” The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 47, no. 1 (Feb. 1, 1953): 11–14 (ill.).
Meyric R. Rogers, “American Decorative Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago”, The Magazine Antiques, LXXIC (July, 1958), 49–56 (ill.).
Comstock, Helen, American Furniture (New York: The Viking Press, 1962), no. 17 (ill.).
Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furnitue (Nashville: The American Association for State and Local History, 1981), 12, no. 5 (ill.).
Jonathan L. Fairbanks, New England Begins, The Seventeenth Century (Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1982), no. 183, 220 (references AIC chair).
Joseph T. Butler, Field Guide to American Antique Furniture (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1985), no. 6, 91 (ill.).
Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture (Nashville: The American Association for State and Local History, 1985), 91, no. 6 (ill.).

Descended in the Sumner family to General William H. Sumner (1780–1861), Boston, by 1861; possibly given to a great uncle of Charles F. Coleman, by 1861 [according to a letter from Charles F. Coleman, dated Oct. 14, 1937, original in curatorial object file, Arts of the Americas; Coleman notes that his grandfather’s brother was at one time employed by General William H. Sumner]; descended in the family to Charles F. Coleman (c. 1888–at least 1940), Newton, MA [according to letter from Charles F. Coleman, dated Oct. 14, 1937, original in curatorial object file, Arts of the Americas]; sold to George N. McMahon, by 1949; sold to Elizabeth R. Vaughan (born Tyson, 1871–1949), South Berwick, ME, and Sherborn, MA, by 1949 [according to note by George N. McMahon, original in curatorial object file, Arts of the Americas]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1950.

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