Side chair
1760–1785
Object PlaceNewport, Rhode Island
Medium/TechniqueMahogany, cherry
Dimensions97.79 x 38.1 x 48.89 cm (38 1/2 x 15 x 19 1/4 in.)
Credit LineThe M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts
Accession number39.172
On View
On viewClassificationsFurniture
Collections
In recent years scholars have reattributed to Boston craftsmen many chairs once believed to have been made in Newport and New York. This example, however, still is attributed to Rhode Island and possibly to the shop of John Goddard. The carving of the feet and shell; the shape of the seat; and the pierced, vase-shaped splat (back) relate closely to those of documented Goddard furniture.
ProvenanceOwned by G. W. Smith, Providence, Rhode Island; purchased for The M. and M. Karolik Collection of 18th-Century American Arts.
about 1760
